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Vox Telecom, whose main shareholders last month decided against selling the company after considering offers from interested parties, now plans to build its own national fibre-optic broadband backbone

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

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

MTN told communications regulator Icasa on Friday that it should block Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel because the deal would give the country’s largest mobile operator an unfair advantage. At public

Access to radio frequency spectrum owned by Neotel would give Vodacom “some breathing room”, relaxing constraints on its ability to compete and allowing it to offer more 4G/LTE and 2G capacity on its networks

Public hearings hosted by telecommunications regulator Icasa are due to commence later this week to discuss Vodacom’s acquisition of Neotel. The final decision will have far-reaching consequences, with the potential either to accelerate or inhibit the roll-out of high-speed fibre connectivity

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has denied that she is considering suspending some members of the SABC board. This is after Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis said in a statement on Tuesday that the party understood “from several sources” that Muthambi