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The recapitalisation of Cell C has hit a potential roadblock. Communications regulator Icasa late on Wednesday evening said the mobile operator may have failed to make the correct regulatory filings regarding the
MTN and Vodacom have tied for first place in terms of mobile broadband coverage in South Africa, a comprehensive set of data points analysed by OpenSignal has shown. The report by the company, which specialises in
Blue Label Telecoms, the JSE-listed group led by brothers Mark and Brett Levy, has turned in a strong set of financial results for the year to May 2017, the last numbers it will report that don’t include contributions from its
The recapitalisation of Cell C involving JSE-listed companies Blue Label Telecoms and Net1 UEPS Technologies is “not a done deal”, the mobile operator’s embittered black economic empowerment partner said on
Government accesses the call records of more than 70 000 phone numbers in South Africa per year, according to the Right2Know Campaign, citing statistics from Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom. “These numbers show that, at
Kuben Pillay is the new chairman of Cell C, while Larry Nestadt will serve as his deputy, the mobile operator said on Monday. The appointments follow the recapitalisation of Cell C and the purchase by
There is little argument that when communications regulator Icasa cut mobile call termination rates – the per-minute charges operators levy on each other to carry calls between their networks – there was
Lycamobile, one of the world’s largest mobile virtual network operators, has firmed up its plans to launch services in South Africa, piggybacking on Cell C’s network. TechCentral first reported in March that Lycamobile
Icasa’s move to regulate what it terms “out-of-bundle billing practices” and “expiry of data practices” is years overdue. The regulator wants to get rid of the typical 30-day expiry period for mobile data bundles, which has been a