Why does the narrative remain that some “duopoly” between Vodacom and MTN is the source of South Africa’s relatively high data prices? It’s not true. By Martin van Staden.
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Rain expects to accelerate the installation of 5G towers to 1 500 in larger metropolitan areas in South Africa by December 2021, African Rainbow Capital Investments said on Friday.
Vodacom has unveiled its first fixed-wireless broadband plans using its newly launched 5G network. One plan offers 800GB of data for R1 499.
Communications regulator Icasa has assigned emergency temporary spectrum to telecommunications operators to deal with network demand during the Covid-19 crisis.
Cell C is conspicuous by its absence from Icasa’s announcement on Friday of the companies that have been given access to temporary spectrum during the Covid-19 crisis. That is by design, it said.
Vodacom said on Thursday that data traffic flowing across its network has jumped by as much as 40% as a result of the lockdown and work-from-home measures introduced by many businesses.
African Rainbow Capital Investments has attached a remarkable R13.1-billion valuation to Rain, giving it a value 40% above Telkom’s current market capitalisation.
South Africa’s fifth mobile operator, Rain, is upping the ante with its bigger rivals, offering uncapped 4G/LTE Internet access for R479/month.
Vodacom said on Tuesday that, thanks to its recently concluded roaming agreement with Liquid Telecom, it will launch next-generation 5G services in South Africa in 2020.
Rain will sell its Broadlink telecommunications business to Internet and cloud service provider CipherWave, TechCentral has learnt.