Uber drivers allegedly harassed

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Rival metered taxis are allegedly intimidating drivers and passengers of Internet service Uber outside Gautrain stations in Johannesburg. This is according to a number of passengers who have taken to social media to complain

More Jo’burg homes to get fibre

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Victory Park, Linden, Bryanston South and Blairgowrie will be the latest suburbs in Johannesburg to get fibre-to-the-home broadband, start-up fibre telecommunications operator Vumatel said on

MTN Business to pursue acquisitions

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MTN Business, the enterprise services arm of mobile operator MTN, intends pursuing partnerships with IT companies as well as acquisitions as it seeks to grow its contribution to group revenues to

StarTimes seeks R2,5bn from Ghana

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Pay-television operator StarTimes, which owns South Africa’s StarSat, is suing the Ghanaian government for US$200m (about R2,5bn) over alleged wrongful termination of contract. The Chinese company, which competes

Naspers keeps its enemies close

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In a year of multibillion-rand investments, the deal that stands out for Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk is the a joint venture agreement reached with Scandinavian e-commerce rival Schibsted. It is a case of keeping your friends

Neotel deal lights fuse under SA telecoms

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Perhaps the biggest surprise to come out of this week’s conditional approval by the Competition Commission of Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel is not that the commission has attached stringent conditions to the

Why BT wants rid of its telephone network

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As the UK’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom embarks on its next strategic review of the market, incumbent fixed-line operator BT – Britain’s equivalent of Telkom – has called for it to be allowed to close

Farroukh ready to quit MTN: report

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MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh announced his intention to resign last month over his inability to end protracted strike action at the company, but this was not “officially accepted”. This is according to a