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The Competition Tribunal has agreed to postpone a hearing regarding a R7bn merger between Vodacom and Neotel indefinitely. This comes after Vodacom released a market update earlier on Monday saying the company is exploring a “revised transaction structure” regarding the Neotel deal

The Competition Tribunal at the weekend agreed to postpone a hearing into the proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel by Vodacom. This comes after Vodacom and Neotel brought an application for a postponement of the hearing that was scheduled to start on Monday

As Telkom walked away from buying Cell C this week, the mobile operator’s parent, the Dubai-headquartered Oger Telecom, has said a sale is not the only option under consideration. Although

We shake up the format a little in TalkCentral this week, introducing a quiz to the show and making some other changes. But the focus is still what’s happening in the world of technology, and your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the 30th anniversary of Windows

Telkom has abandoned a plan to acquire Cell C. The telecommunications operator told shareholders on Thursday afternoon that it had walked away from a deal to acquire South Africa’s third mobile licensee

Cell C has demonstrated download speeds across an LTE Advanced network at the AfricaCom trade show in Cape Town of as much as 138Mbit/s. The operator can’t, however, deploy the technology without

Vodacom’s latest numbers must be deeply worrying for its principal rival, MTN. While the latter is facing immense turmoil – a R75bn fine in Nigeria, the departure of its long-serving group CEO and

In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your podcast hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN’s troubles in Nigeria. Also on the show this week, we chat about Telkom’s due

Telkom’s possible acquisition of Cell C would result in a stronger competitor to Vodacom and MTN, according to Boyd Chislett, the MD of the soon-to-be-closed cellular service provider Altech Autopage. Telkom on Monday issued a market update

Mobile service provider Altech Autopage has tried to mitigate retrenchments amid the company eyeing a February 2016 shutdown, said its MD. Parent Altron said in a cautionary announcement in May that it planned to sell the subscriber base