Icasa has vetted and approved all six companies that bid to take part in next month’s radio frequency spectrum auction for mobile broadband services.
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Here’s how South Africa’s mobile operators stack up against each other when it comes to subscriber market share and average revenue per user.
South Africa has the second-fastest average mobile download speed in Africa at 19.2Mbit/s – beaten on the continent by only one other country.
In a dramatic turn of events, Telkom has proposed withdrawing an urgent application to interdict Icasa over the licensing of broadband spectrum.
Ookla has released its fourth quarter report on South African mobile operators and Internet service providers.
Just a week after rival MTN said it would cut international roaming charges for accessing data services abroad, Vodacom has followed suit.
Following a “lengthy competitive process”, MTN Group will sell a big chunk of its South African tower portfolio to IHS Towers in a R6.4-billion deal.
Cell C CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson has criticised Telkom over its narrative that there is an abusive “duopoly” between Vodacom and MTN in South Africa’s mobile market, saying this argument no longer holds water.
Telkom has joined MTN and Vodacom in shutting stores in violence-torn KwaZulu-Natal, and has now decided to close its outlets countrywide until further notice as a precautionary measure.
President Cyril Ramaphosa hit out at telecommunications companies for bringing legal action against plans to issue more broadband spectrum, urging them to resolve the matter.