Any doubt that lower wholesale call termination rates have led to a sharp decline in retail mobile tariffs in South Africa should be put to rest, new research shows. South Africans have benefited directly from a reduction in termination rates – the fees telecommunications
Telkom and Cell C both face significant upheaval in the short term, much more so than their rivals MTN and Vodacom. How the two companies adapt to the changing market will have a dramatic impact on South Africa’s telecoms sector and, ultimately, on the services that
Signal jamming in parliament, Cell C gaining market share, GCHQ hacking Gemalto, restructuring at Telkom. It’s all in this week’s packed episode of TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the week’s biggest
MTN has continued to lose market share in prepaid in South Africa in the past six months, despite slashing its voice tariffs to 79c/minute, new numbers published by Blue Label Telecoms suggest
Telkom may be planning to sell its network of base stations as it looks to reduce costs, a news report suggested on Thursday. According to news wire agency Bloomberg, Telkom is working
China’s Huawei, which lost ground in South Africa relative to some of its smartphone rivals over the Christmas sales season – pushing it into fourth place in terms of shipments – has vowed to
Cell C said on Friday that it had lodged an application in the high court in Johannesburg to review communications regulator Icasa’s 2014 late wholesale call termination rate regulations. Those regulations softened asymmetry that favoured Cell C that had
Former Samsung South Africa mobile communications head Craige Fleischer has been named as chief sales and marketing officer at Neotel. He joined the telecommunications operator last week. Fleischer, who took
Should Vodacom be allowed to buy Neotel? That’s the question on the lips of South Africa’s regulators and, indeed, most players in the telecommunications industry. Progress in the proposed R7bn acquisition is expected in the next few months as communications regulator Icasa and
Cell C made an impassioned plea to communications regulator Icasa on Thursday not to approve Vodacom’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel, warning that the deal would result in a lessening of competition
