Independent cellphone tower operator IHS, which is headquartered in Nigeria, has secured a US$202m syndicated credit facility from Ecobank Capital and other banks. The money will be used to help facilitate IHS’s acquisition of MTN Group’s 1 757 base stations in Cameroon and
The Hawks arrested two Bulgarian men on Sunday after 12 bank-card skimming devices were found in their house in Pretoria, said police. Captain Paul Ramaloko reported that this was the largest number of the devices ever found in one operation. The arrests came
If you play music outside of your home or car and there are other people around to hear it, technically you owe the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) money. And it doesn’t matter if the music is recorded or from the radio. The same holds true if you run
Skyfall takes James Bond to darker, more personal places than any other film in the series ever has. Before the film rebuilds him, its Bond is a wreck, pill-popping and borderline alcoholic, his nerves as shattered as his body is dilapidated. He’s an anachronism, a symbol of the withering
Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson are back with the second episode of the fresh-look TalkCentral podcast. In this week’s show, we look at the top three news stories of the last seven days and pick our winner and loser of the week – this week it’s Absa and Samro. We also
Reductions in the fees that mobile operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks have not hurt them financially, as they claimed they would. Nor have they led to higher retail prices, lower investments or retrenchments in the sector. These are some of the
Eyebrows have been raised at possible corporate breaches around the purchase of Shanduka Group’s minority stake in MTN Nigeria. Now a legal expert has warned that the holding company may have bigger problems making sure its agreement complies with new local and international legislation
After more than a year of testing, MTN South Africa will on Saturday launch its fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) network on a commercial basis in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban. MTN confirmed on Friday that the network would go live on 1 December
JSE-listed computer assembler and technology distributor Mustek has sold its 41,8% stake in distributor Comztek to another JSE-listed IT company, Datatec, for R39,4m in cash and shares. Comztek’s only other major shareholder, its MD Paul Conradie – who also holds 41,8% of the equity
Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and David Greenway meet in the “fish bowl” for a discussion on everything from the new Asus Windows 8 devices to Sony’s 4K TV and from Black Friday and Cyber Monday to rumours that iTunes is coming to South Africa
