Communications regulator Icasa failed in its regulatory duty when it allowed Vodacom and Rain to enter into a national roaming agreement, Cell C told the Competition Commission on Thursday.

Regulators should lend more support to smaller mobile operators to help them break the dominance of Vodacom and MTN, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko told the Competition Commission on Thursday.

MTN South Africa’s data prices will tumble when it gets access to new radio frequency spectrum, CEO Godfrey Motsa told the Competition Commission in Pretoria on Thursday.

Of the 21 countries in which MTN operates, its South African operation has the least spectrum assigned to it outside countries that face conflict situations.

Vodacom simply doesn’t have the network capacity to be able to sell access to its network on a wholesale basis to South African Internet service providers, CEO Shameel Joosub said on Thursday.

Vodacom said on Thursday it is working with device manufacturers to introduce enhanced voice services – known as super high-definition voice or HD Voice+, on its network in South Africa.

Apple said it will hold a product announcement 30 October in Brooklyn, New York, likely to unveil new iPads and Mac computers.

A former employee of Huawei Technologies has accused the mobile giant of using a lawsuit against his Silicon Valley start-up to steal intellectual property and help China achieve technological dominance over the US.

Millions of servers hum away in remote data centres of Google, Amazon.com and Microsoft. Privacy Labs, a start-up based near Microsoft headquarters, wants to upend all this in the name of digital security.

Paul Allen’s family office will live long and prosper. The billionaire’s vast holdings at Vulcan would take years to unravel, if that’s even what he wanted.