President Jacob Zuma and his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, are set to meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss the US$5,2bn fine imposed by Nigerian authorities on South African telecommunications group MTN’s subsidiary in the West African nation, it was reported on Sunday
Naspers’s fledgling video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, will be expanded to three new continents in the coming year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The news wire cited an unnamed source as saying that the company is targeting more than
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will have the final say on what happens with the US$5,2bn (R73bn) fine imposed on South African-headquartered telecommunications group MTN, multiple
Alcatel-Lucent has announced it is about to begin construction of the Africa Coast to Europe submarine cable’s second phase, which will connect South Africa to São Tomé and Príncipe and provide an alternative route to Europe to the West Africa Cable System
Something significant transpired on Friday last week that prompted South Africa’s largest telecommunications operator, Vodacom, to review the structure of its acquisition of Neotel, a
The Competition Tribunal has agreed to postpone a hearing regarding a R7bn merger between Vodacom and Neotel indefinitely. This comes after Vodacom released a market update earlier on Monday saying the company is exploring a “revised transaction structure” regarding the Neotel deal
The Competition Tribunal at the weekend agreed to postpone a hearing into the proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel by Vodacom. This comes after Vodacom and Neotel brought an application for a postponement of the hearing that was scheduled to start on Monday
As Telkom walked away from buying Cell C this week, the mobile operator’s parent, the Dubai-headquartered Oger Telecom, has said a sale is not the only option under consideration. Although
Telkom has abandoned a plan to acquire Cell C. The telecommunications operator told shareholders on Thursday afternoon that it had walked away from a deal to acquire South Africa’s third mobile licensee
Africa’s biggest mobile network MTN has been slapped with a Ugandan court order to pay $662 000 (R9,3m) in damages for alleged anticompetitive behaviour. It is understood that MTN supplied a mobile money transfer
