Telecommunications and technology advisory firm BMIT has warned that South Africa faces complex choices and trade-offs in reaching decisions regarding the awarding of new spectrum licences.
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TechCentral sat down with Cell C’s CEO and chief financial officer to discuss the operator’s plan not only to pull itself back from the brink but to put itself on a sustainable financial footing.
Shares in Blue Label Telecoms enjoyed a rare upswing on Friday, a day after it issued a trading update that showed its core business continues to perform well despite the ongoing woes at Cell C.
Icasa plans to issue an “information memorandum” before the end of the year on the licensing process for high-demand spectrum, finally kicking a process into gear that should have been concluded years ago.
Rain has launched a commercial 5G wireless home broadband service, becoming the first telecommunications operator in South Africa to do so.
From inception, no one has made an equity return from investing in Cell C. It’s doubtful whether Jonathan Beare and his Buffet Consortium will be any different.
MTN South Africa is launching a wholesale fixed-LTE offering to Internet service providers, with its own ISP, Supersonic, the first to bring a retail product to market on the back of the offering.
MTN Group is making a number of changes to its executive leadership team across Africa.
South Africa is in a precarious state and urgent action is needed to stabilise its finances, according to former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, who will assume the role of MTN Group chairman in December.
The regulator’s complaints and compliance committee has fined MTN South Africa R5-million – R2-million of which is suspended for three years – for contravening regulations when it hiked the tariffs on one of its data plans.