The department of international relations has confirmed it is investigating allegations that the former ambassador to Iran, Yusuf Salojee, accepted…
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The question of what SA should do about Telkom has occupied many minds, especially since its proposed deal with Korea’s KT Corp was blocked by cabinet. Telkom’s management team put on a brave face after the deal was scuppered, saying the KT deal would
Cell C is set to become the third mobile operator in SA to stock the iPhone. The company has begun taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4S, the latest iteration of Apple’s smartphone, on its website. Until now, consumers interested in buying an iPhone have had to get it through either Vodacom or MTN
The recent piece by BMI-Techknowledge senior consultant Martyn Roetter, in response to a Convergence Partners research report on wholesale open-access wireless networks, itself deserves some reply. It goes without saying that the Convergence Partners’ research report speaks to that company’s own strategy
Alan Knott-Craig’s move to simplify Cell C’s tariff structures is a smart strategic manoeuvre. He’s making it easy for customers to understand what they’re getting for their money. It’s long overdue in an industry where the bigger players bewilder their
MTN has filed a motion to dismiss the case filed against it by Turkey’s Turkcell in a US federal court, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Tuesday. MTN filed the motion to dismiss the case on Monday, 2 July. The operator says Turkcell’s claim against it in the US is the latest of four legal
Vodacom’s long-running legal dispute with a fixer who recently won a case against it in a Democratic Republic of Congo court is still simmering. And accusations are being made of improper influence over the Congo’s judiciary. The Kinshasa Commercial Court ruled in January that Vodacom
Mobile operator Cell C is in talks with Vodacom about renegotiating the 15-year roaming agreement the two companies signed in 2001. Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says the discussions with Vodacom “are going in the right direction”, but he says he
Pondering Panda, which forms part of Alan Knott-Craig Jr’s World of Avatar group, has found that 78% of cellphone users in SA experienced dropped calls last month. The survey has also found that although all of SA’s networks had similar levels of dropped calls, MTN performed marginally worse than its rivals
Turkish cellphone operator Turkcell has accused SA-based multinational mobile giant MTN of orchestrating a “cover-up” rather than a credible investigation into claims that the South Africans bribed and influence-peddled their way into Iran in 2005. The Turkish company said in a statement that