A flurry of initiatives aimed at achieving a reduction in mobile termination rates will provide interesting sidesdows, but beneath the politics of the moment, the real action remains an intimate dance between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the mobile networks. The initial mobile termination rate, also known as interconnection rate, of 20c/minute was set between Vodacom and MTN on 8 August 1994. This was amended on 28 May 1999, shortly after it was announced by government that a third mobile cellular telecommunications licence would be issued.
New communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala has promised to get tough on poor performance by state-owned enterprises that fall in her…
Cheryl Carolus has been appointed chairwoman of the board of SA Airways (SAA), public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan said on…
The decision to suspend talks about a possible merger between cellphone giants MTN and India’s Bharti Airtel was welcomed by…
Shares in India’s top mobile company Bharti Airtel jumped Thursday, a day after it announced merger talks with SA’s MTN…
After five months of wrangling, the second attempt by MTN and Bharti executives to form a mobile giant in emerging markets has collapsed, just short of the altar. Bharti says that the SA government kiboshed the deal: “This structure needed an approval from the government of SA, which has expressed its inability to accept it in the current form.”
MTN and Bharti decided to terminate merger talks, the national treasury said on Wednesday after talks between finance minister Pravin…
India’s top mobile company Bharti Airtel said on Wednesday it and SA cellular flagship MTN Group had decided to end…
SA consumers got their first taste of a broadband price war last week when a small Internet service provider, Afrihost, slashed the price of bandwidth to below cost. It’s a promising start, but matters little until Telkom is forced to open its network to rivals. It was a ballsy move. Last week, Afrihost cut the cost of fixed-line bandwidth on broadband digital subscriber lines to just R29/GB. To put that in perspective, the average selling price for this type of bandwidth has, until now, been R50-R70/GB
Apple introduced its first iPod on 23 October 2001. Almost eight years later, and no other product has come close…