Cuts to wholesale mobile call termination rates led to a 1,3% decline in Vodacom’s service revenues in South Africa in the six months ended September 2014. Without the cut to the rates, which mobile operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks, the company’s service revenue would have
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South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project is in a dire state and if the country fails to switch off its analogue signals after the mid-June 2015 cut-off date, it may be obliged to do so if analogue signals interfere with
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has written off R75m of the licence fees owed to it by the iBurst parent company, Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), which is entertaining a takeover offer to acquire the
Broadcasting regulator Icasa was ordered on Monday to review its decision to license three porn pay channels. Handing down judgment in the Western Cape high court, judge Lee Bozalek said the decision taken last year by Icasa to
Telkom and Business Connexion (BCX) are still awaiting approvals from four regulators before the telecommunications operator’s R2,7bn acquisition of the JSE-listed IT services company can be consummated. In a statement to shareholders on Tuesday, BCX said the parties are
Departing councillors at communications regulator Icasa, asked to step aside before completing a customary 45 working day handover period, may be mulling legal action against communications minister Faith Muthambi, according to a newspaper report on Monday. Business Day says it has
Democratic Alliance spokesman on communications Gavin Davis says the party believes communications minister Faith Muthambi acted unlawfully when she sent letters to four councillors at the Independent Communications
Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube has downplayed the impact of a decision by communications minister Faith Muthambi to ask four of the communications regulator’s councillors to leave before they have served a customary handover period of 45 days. However, in a statement, Mncube does not address the
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has ordered that four councillors at communications regulator Icasa whose terms are ending leave the institution and not stay on for a 45-day handover period, despite the fact that
Long lead times in securing permission from government agencies to build infrastructure as well as ongoing delays in the allocation of access to additional frequency spectrum is putting MTN and other operators in a “precarious” and