India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, said on Tuesday it had sealed a US$10,7bn deal to buy Zain’s African assets, ranking it among the world’s top…
Indian telecommunications tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal is on the cusp of achieving his dream of building a presence in Africa with a planned US$10,7bn buy-out of…
A “land grab” is under way in SA’s cellphone and banking industries as big companies — retailers, banks and telecommunications operators — begin vying for a…
Shares in India’s Bharti Airtel edged higher Tuesday on reports it would sign a US$10,7bn deal to acquire the African telecommunications assets of Kuwait’s Zain. Officials…
The construction of a new, high-capacity undersea cable on Africa’s eastern coastline is nearing completion, with nearly 9 000km of the system already having been installed…
MTN SA MD Karel Pienaar has apologised for the billing system debacle that resulted in thousands of its customers being incorrectly billed. Pienaar says the last…
Mobile group MTN has cut its 3G data prices in SA in the first sign that an escalating broadband price war involving Internet service providers could soon spread from fixed lines to mobile.
Carrier-neutral data centre operator Teraco plans to expand its new Johannesburg facility to 1 250sq m because of growing demand. At the same time, it is…
The second and final stage of the introduction of fixed-line number portability, which will allow individual Telkom customers to switch networks without losing their numbers, has…
Telkom, which will become SA’s fourth mobile network operator when it launches commercial wireless services later this year, will sign a national roaming agreement with MTN,…