Smile Telecommunications, the telecommunications operator started five years ago by former MTN executive Irene Charnley, has signed a deal that will see it investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build fourth-generation (4G) broadband networks in Uganda, Tanzania

Independent telecommunications tower operator, Nigerian-founded IHS Group, believes that half of the 170 000 base stations built by mobile operators in Africa will be considered for outsourcing within the next three to five years as pressure

South Africa’s wealthy Oppenheimer family is investing in the country’s technology sector. E Oppenheimer & Son has become an investor in a venture capital fund run by Cape Town’s 4Di Capital. The Oppenheimer investment – the value is not being disclosed – will

SouthTel Group’s planned video-on-demand service, called VOD:TV, which was first slated for launch in September 2011, will now only go live next year, a company spokesman says. VOD:TV, when it is launched, will offer consumers a range of on-demand content

Telkom has appointed Attila Vitai as MD of its mobile division, which includes Telkom Business Mobile and 8ta. The appointment is effective immediately. According to Telkom, Vitai “brings a wealth of experience with a successful 20-year track record of senior

With its tapered sides, polycarbonate-clad unibody design and 4,3-inch, 1 280×720-pixel display, the HTC 8X certainly looks the part. As HTC’s new flagship Windows Phone device and one of the first handsets powered by Windows Phone 8

E.tv says it is dismayed by comments made by Roy Kruger, communications minister Dina Pule’s technical advisor, about the broadcaster’s commitment to digital terrestrial television. Pule herself was quick to distance herself from the remarks

Build it and they will come. That was the overwhelming message emanating from the first FTTH Council Africa conference in Cape Town this week. Speaker after speaker made the case – often cogently – for why any capacity that gets built will be used

JSE-listed telecommunications operator Telkom expects headline earnings per share for the six months ended 30 September 2012 to be between 78% and 83% lower than the same period a year ago. The company issued an updated

Telkom now has sufficient directors on its board to elect a new chairman. This follows the appointment of Jabulane Mabuza and Kholeka Mzondeki as directors of the telecommunications operator. Telkom’s board was thrown