South Africa’s Echo Service Provider has reached a deal to merge with the Internet service provider operations of Gondwana International Networks in markets across Africa.
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The Internet Service Providers’ Association has urged the Competition Commission to force South Africa’s mobile network operators to open their networks on a wholesale basis to ISPs.
The Competition Commission should force the mobile operators to split themselves into separate wholesale and retail businesses, the Right2Know Campaign said on Wednesday.
Mobile operators have begun distinguishing between different kinds of traffic and providing differentiated data bundles for streaming and social media services.
Telkom is in talks with Zimbabwe’s state-owned mobile telecommunications operator, NetOne, as the government weighs the privatisation of the business, Bloomberg reported.
South African Airways has appointed Telkom chief investment officer Deon Fredericks as its new interim chief financial officer on secondment from the telecommunications operator.
Telkom is billing the national police service for two contracts that cover virtually the same work, five people familiar with the situation have said.
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Thursday slammed communications regulator Icasa’s new call termination rate regime, saying it favours the industry’s larger players.
Telkom said on Wednesday that it is disappointed with communications regulator Icasa’s final call termination regulations and warned they could have an impact on its operations.
Communications regulator Icasa has amended its call termination regulations, the rules that govern how much operators may charge each other to carry calls between their networks.