The US has been warning other countries not to buy telecommunications gear from China’s Huawei and ZTE. The government will soon put real money behind the effort.
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After a massive selloff on Monday, shares of South Africa’s biggest listed telecommunications companies continued to trade lower into Tuesday.
Amazon.com needs to shake off a patchy record in live sports when it brings the world’s richest soccer competition to millions of fans from Tuesday.
The Twitter CEO said in a post last week that he’ll spend three to six months somewhere on the continent next year. But investors have appeared less convinced of the executive’s intentions over the following days.
South Africa’s economy contracted for a second quarter this year in the three months to September as farming, mining and factory output slumped. The rand extended its decline against the dollar.
Vodacom and MTN must drop mobile data prices significantly, failing which the Competition Commission will consider prosecuting the two companies.
The Competition Commission on Monday unveiled surprisingly broad-ranging, tough and radical interventions in the data services market, including a proposal that mobile operators be forced to give South Africans a free allocation of daily data.
Vodacom and MTN said in reaction to interventions by the Competition Commission that a failure by government to allocate spectrum timeously is one of the reasons data prices are higher than they would otherwise be.
Cell C’s creditors aren’t giving up on a takeover offer from rival Telkom, which South Africa’s third largest mobile network operator rejected last week.
Shares of Vodacom Group and MTN Group slumped after South Africa’s two biggest mobile phone companies were ordered to step up efforts to lower data prices within the next two months or face prosecution.