Cell C parent Oger Telecom has received offers to buy its controlling 75% stake in the South African mobile telecommunications operator from six groups, it was reported on Wednesday. Business Day quoted Oger Telecom chief legal officer and
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Anyone who flies into Johannesburg in the early mornings during winter will be familiar with the atmospheric inversion layer, where air near the ground is cooled by the unheated swimming pools of the struggling middle classes. The cool air traps pollutants beneath warmer layers
Mobile telecommunications operator MTN and pan-African fibre-optic infrastructure provider Liquid Telecom have signed a partnership deal in terms of which they will jointly offer customers access to their wireless and fixed services across the continent
IT and telecommunications shares took a pounding on Monday as a global stock market rout hammered the JSE. Big companies such as MTN and EOH were trading sharply lower as investors fled shares for safer assets
Internet streaming is a serious competitive threat to broadcast television in South Africa, but the technology is hamstrung by cost challenges, says an analyst. “There is no doubt that Internet streaming
Ten billion rand. That’s MTN South Africa’s capital expenditure this year. It’s a massive number. For the first year in memory (possibly ever), MTN will outspend Vodacom on capex. In the 2015 financial year, Vodacom spent R8,6bn. Now, Vodacom’s
Did the Competition Commission do the right thing in seeking to block – in the process scuppering – the network sharing deal between Telkom and MTN? On the surface, it appears it was the right move for consumers, but dig a little deeper and one has to question whether the
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub is clearly confident about the mobile group’s prospects. Joosub on Thursday snapped up almost R4m in Vodacom shares, according to a notice posted by the JSE on Friday morning. Joosub acquired 26 608 shares worth R3 981 678,60, the notice said
MTN has entered into discussions with fast-growing pan-African mobile phone tower operator IHS Holding with a view to selling its South African tower portfolio, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Quoting an unnamed source
MTN Business and Microsoft have entered into a partnership to provide pan-African cloud computing services from the telecommunications operator’s data centres, the companies said on Thursday. The