MTN’s Ghana unit said on Tuesday it was withdrawing a legal challenge it had filed to the supreme court over the market regulator’s move to designate it a significant market power.
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In this special edition of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to three top industry experts, Steve Song, Kerron Edmunson and Mortimer Hope, to unpack Icasa’s invitations to apply for spectrum and the Woan licence.
South Africans were cheered this week with three announcements many thought would never come: arrests in relation to state corruption and plans to sell vacant farmland and new Internet spectrum.
Operators will no longer have to hand back temporary spectrum assignments, awarded to them under the Covid-19 state of disaster regulations, until the spectrum auction is held in March 2021.
Africa’s mobile phone operators are ramping up plans to bring banking to millions of Africans, in some cases for the first time, after the coronavirus crisis caused a surge in use of digital financial services.
As Icasa prepares to release the long-awaited invitation to apply this week for five broadband spectrum bands, a new research report has cautioned the authority to set realistic prices.
South African businesses have had to respond to the coronavirus and lockdown restrictions since March. At the same time, the country’s economy is in crisis. Here’s how companies are coping.
On the face of it, the Covid-19 lockdown was an inadvertent blessing for South Africa’s telecommunications operators.
Ethiopia has set a new deadline of February 2021 to complete the partial privatisation of the country’s telecommunications industry, with carriers such as Orange, Vodafone Group and MTN Group keen to participate.
Ethiopia plans to sell a 5% stake in its state-run telecommunications firm to its citizens as part of measures to break up the monopoly, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting said on Monday.