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Liquid Telecom confirms 5G network launch plans
Liquid Telecom on Monday confirmed that it will launch a wholesale 5G network “early in 2020”. Vodacom is set to be one of the first customers to use it.
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Rain to sell Broadlink to CipherWave
Rain will sell its Broadlink telecommunications business to Internet and cloud service provider CipherWave, TechCentral has learnt.
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Vodacom, Liquid Telecom in deal to build national 5G network
Exclusive | Vodacom and Liquid Telecom have signed an agreement which will, in effect, give the country’s biggest mobile operator access to a key spectrum band, allowing it to deploy 5G services nationally.
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Icasa, FBP and ZADNA to be merged
Regulators Icasa, the Film and Publication Board and the ZA Domain Name Authority will be merged, communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said on Thursday.
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MTN’s Shuter: CompCom report ‘unnecessarily negative’
MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter on Thursday voiced his disappointment in the Competition Commission’s report on the data services market in South Africa, arguing it was poorly framed and failed to acknowledge the successes of the industry.
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Telkom CEO skewers CompCom for ‘blunt tool’ of price control
Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko has slammed the Competition Commission for intervening directly in prices in the data services market, warning using this “blunt and archaic” tool is an “ineffective instrument that may ultimately have unintended and deleterious consequences”.
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Spectrum: 10 years of dithering and delay
The Competition Commission says data must fall; Vodacom and MTN say they need more spectrum. Ten years after communications regulator Icasa tried to license new spectrum, it still hasn’t happened.
Duncan McLeod
CompCom takes a machete to South Africa’s telecoms industry
The Competition Commission’s final report on the data services market in South Africa is, frankly, an embarrassment. It amounts to regulatory overreach and dangerous populism that could threaten billions of rand in planned investments in the coming years. By Duncan McLeod.
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Icasa wants to intervene in the mobile broadband market
Communications regulator Icasa has said there is insufficient competition in aspects of the delivery of mobile broadband in South Africa.
Duncan McLeod
Commission must be cautious on data market regulation
Ahead of publication of the Competition Commission’s final report flowing from its inquiry in the data services market, expected later on Monday, TechCentral republishes this column from editor Duncan McLeod.
