JSE-listed telecommunications group MTN has made sweeping changes to its top management structure, doing away with its regional vice-president positions and creating a new position of group chief operating executive, to be headed by Ahmad Farroukh. Farroukh, a former CEO of MTN’s Nigerian operation who
MTN Group expects to add more than 20m subscribers in the next 12 months, taking its customer base from 164,5m to 184,8m by the end of the year. In 2011, the JSE-listed mobile group, which has operations in 21 countries across Africa and the Middle East, grew its subscriber base by 16,2% to 164,5m. It expects to
The ANC has proposed a sweeping overhaul of policy governing SA’s technology sector. For the most part, the proposals are reasonably business-friendly and should be welcomed. But the lingering conviction that state intervention will ensure the delivery of services to all is still a cause for concern. The proposals, contained
On the eve of Apple’s much-hyped iPad HD event, Google has fired a shot right at Apple when it comes to media with its new Google Play store. Google Play will combine all of Google’s other stores like the Android Market and Google Music into one cloud-based marketplace
Nashua Mobile is to offer Nokia handsets with unlimited e-mail, Internet browsing, social networking and instant messaging for a fixed rate of R59/month in a move clearly aimed at Nokia rival Research in Motion, whose BlackBerry smartphones are available on
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in SA plans to work with IBM to develop a “big data” analytics platform with self-tuning and self-learning capabilities to analyse large volumes of radio astronomy data. The proposed software may
Thousands of Telkom employees appealed to the competition authorities on Tuesday to take their job security into account before penalising their employer, trade union Solidarity said. The Competition Commission has asked the Competition Tribunal to find Telkom guilty of excessive pricing and market abuse
Government should place a “moratorium” on the construction of new copper-cable infrastructure for telecommunications by no later than the end of 2015, says fibre lobby group FTTH Council Africa. “We believe the department of communications needs to consider the future of broadband penetration and to place a deadline on the deployment
Telkom could pay as much as R885m/year more in spectrum licence fees if new proposals by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) are adopted. Under Icasa’s proposed new fee structure, Telkom and other bulk users of spectrum — they include Transnet, Eskom, the SA National Defence Force and
SA’s largest cinema chain, Ster-Kinekor Theatres, which is owned by Primedia, has decided to end its decades-long advertising in print newspapers, directing its clients to the Web and to mobile instead, according to a report. iAfrica.com, also a Primedia property, said on Tuesday that
