MTN is not prepared to spend billions of dollars building advanced telecommunications networks just so that “over the top” (OTT) providers can get a “free ride” by competing with the company using that same costly infrastructure. There
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Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Virgin Mobile South Africa has set its sights on a million subscribers over the next three years and hopes a new product proposition it will launch before the end of the year will be the platform that allows it to achieve this. The company has downplayed suggestions
Mobile operator Cell C has announced that it will offer free access to WhatsApp, the popular instant-messaging service, to its contract customers as well as some prepaid clients on a promotional basis. Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos describes the move as being part of a need by mobile
Technology group Altech, part of the JSE-listed Altron stable, on Thursday evening announced that it is making a big play into the video-on-demand and home automation markets with a new, satellite-based home entertainment product called the Node that it hopes will become a
Cell C will survive with or without “asymmetry” in mobile termination rates, but there is a principle involved that must be defended, the mobile operator’s CEO, Jose Dos Santos, has said. “This company will survive, irrespective of the outcome,” Dos Santos
Cell C’s leadership team must feel like it’s on a roller coaster ride it can’t get off. One moment it’s shrieking in delight as its regulator, Icasa, gives it a significant price advantage over its bigger rivals; the next it’s crying out
South Africa’s third mobile operator, Cell C, will oppose the proposed mobile network sharing deal between Telkom and MTN. “Cell C has been asked to comment on the proposed transaction by the
Cell C, the biggest loser in Icasa’s proposed new call termination rates, has lashed out at the communications regulator, accusing it of making a “dramatic U-turn”. Although Cell C will continue to benefit from “asymmetry” in the rates for the next four years – it will pay bigger rivals MTN
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Communications regulator Icasa has published its proposed new mobile termination rates for the period 1 October 2014 to 28 February 2018. It will push down the rates, which operators charge each other to carry calls between