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Independent cellphone tower operator Eaton Towers has secured US$150m in equity funding from Capital International Private Equity Funds (Cipef), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets. The funding will be used to acquire, build and

The National Consumer Commission, established in April to enforce the new Consumer Protection Act, has received objections from all of SA’s big operators, with the exception of Neotel, to the compliance notices it served on them demanding

Tower sharing may be the solution to the dual problem of increasing demand for network capacity and the revenue pressures facing SA operators. Johan Smith, head of Africa telecommunications group at KPMG, says the industry, regulators and government need

The Advertising Industry Tribunal has ruled against an appeal by Cell C against a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority that its use of the “power to you” pay-off line in its advertising was in contravention of the authority’s advertising codes. The original

Vodacom provoked an online backlash from consumers this week when it said it would throttle bandwidth for heavy users of the popular BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS). It says it’s protecting its users, but are the limitations it’s imposing too harsh? When Vodacom announced

Is French telecommunications giant Orange, the mobile subsidiary of France Telecom, buying JSE-listed IT services company Business Connexion (BCX)? Three separate industry sources, none of whom is employed by either company, have told TechCentral they understand

We bring you a bumper edition of the TalkCentral podcast this week. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson unpack the launch of Telkom Business Mobile and ask whether the telecommunications company has turned the corner and what a reinvigorated Telkom could

SA’s mobile operators must do more to up their game in customer service instead of simply trying to outdo each other on price, says Vitorrio Massone, managing partner in SA at management consulting firm Bain & Company. In the past year, the operators have slashed their

The final appeal committee of the Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a last attempt by Cell C to have a ruling that the “4Gs” term it used in its advertising was in breach of the authority’s advertising codes overturned. The committee has awarded costs to

BT Group is playing coy over its plans to invest significant capital in fibre-optic network infrastructure in SA, but TechCentral understands an announcement about its plans is imminent. Company executives skirted the issue at a press