South Africa is too small a market to accommodate four mobile operators, Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig told journalists on Wednesday. Replying at a media conference to a question from TechCentral, Knott-Craig said: “I think it’s too late for four. Maybe [it made sense] five or seven years ago [but] after 20
Telecommunications companies will have more time to submit information about the high cost of communications, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa said on Wednesday. Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka said the broadband value chain study deadline had been extended until 29 July and the call
The combined R5,7bn Cell C has received from its majority shareholder, Oger Telecom, and in financing from a Nedbank-led grouping will be used to improve its network and win market share from rivals Vodacom and MTN, says the operator’s CEO, Alan Knott-Craig. But Knott-Craig
Government has listened! Within days of newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim stepping into the shoes of his predecessor, the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) Amendment Bill
iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) may be close to signing a deal with either Vodacom or MTN to build a national 4G broadband network based on long-term evolution technology, TechCentral has learnt. Mtshali says WBS has had extensive discussions with
Rubben Mohlaloga, who is facing charges of defrauding the Land Bank of R6m, has been named to the nine-person council of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) by communications minister Dina Pule. News of his appointment is contained
Telkom may be planning to spin off its copper-based network assets into a special purpose vehicle (SPV), a speculative news report suggests, but it’s unclear why the company would agree to such a move. In an entry posted late on Thursday night, a consumer forum site said it had spoken to unnamed sources – the website didn’t
Insufficient competition between mobile broadband operators is keeping prices higher than they should be and slowing adoption of the Internet by South African consumers, the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) said on Wednesday. The association, which represents
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee was meant to hear a complaint laid against Screamer Telecoms this week but has had to postpone the matter until September because its star witness, Sebastian Meyer, who investigated
Telkom would have us believe that the only thing holding South Africa back from cost-effective Internet is a technical challenge. In fact, it’s greed, compounded by a lack of will and imagination. For the most part, the really big players in telecommunications don’t want to fix the problem. Why should they when they can charge
