Vodacom is seeking the dismissal of a court bid that claims the company stole the idea for its “Airtime Advance” product. Airtime Advance allows subscribers who run out of airtime to get R5 or
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American IT services giant IBM has announced plans to open a multimillion-rand cloud data centre in Johannesburg in collaboration with South African partners Gijima and Vodacom. The facility
MTN South Africa has taken an impairment charge of R592m related to over-spending on handsets in 2015. Parent MTN Group revealed in its annual results, published on Thursday, that
India’s Tata Communications is putting on a brave face after Vodacom announced on Tuesday that it was walking away from a R7bn deal to acquire Tata’s South African subsidiary Neotel. In a letter to shareholders, Tata Communications
The deal is off! Vodacom will no longer acquire Neotel. “Vodacom announces that its proposed acquisition of the majority of Neotel’s assets related to its fixed-line business has lapsed due to regulatory complexities and certain conditions not being
Communications regulator Icasa “failed in its statutory obligation” to promote competition in South Africa’s telecommunications industry when it approved the transfer of Neotel’s operating and spectrum licences to Vodacom, Cell C CEO
Icasa met secretly and unlawfully with Vodacom to discuss the operator’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel, leading to a “reasonable suspicion of bias” against the communications regulator, the high court in Pretoria has found. In a damning judgment, handed down on Friday, Judge
The independence of communications regulator Icasa is at stake in a tussle between the regulator and the department of telecommunications & postal services on how valuable spectrum will be assigned. It is common cause that the
I was on a flight – my tenth or twelfth of the year, I forget – so I missed the president’s state of the nation address. In it, the word “broadband” was mentioned only twice, roughly about the same number of mentions it garners every year. “Government,” we were told
Vodacom has won what its law firm ENSafrica is describing as a “precedent setting” legal battle against its former chief officer for consumer business Godfrey Motsa, who resigned in December to join rival MTN as one of its top