Ethiopia will reopen bidding for its second telecommunications operator licence this month, two senior government officials said on Monday, including the right to operate mobile financial services.
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Vodacom said on Monday that, working with telecommunications equipment supplier Nokia, it has been able to achieve the “highest transmission rates across a live optical network in Africa”.
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Sipho Maseko, who announced last week that he will step down as Telkom CEO next year, saved the company from impending ruin. That might sound like an overstatement; it’s not. By Duncan McLeod.
Vodafone Group has hinted it could spin off its African mobile money service M-Pesa after its popularity soared through the coronavirus pandemic.
Vodacom Group reported a strong 9% advance in revenue in the first quarter of its 2022 financial year, reaching R24.8-billion. If it hadn’t been for rand strength, the figure would have been 14.2%.
South Africa’s mobile operators, including Vodacom, MTN and Rain, are set to face a big challenge to their business models from an unexpected quarter: fixed-line broadband. By Duncan McLeod.
CIVH, the Remgro-controlled company that owns Dark Fibre Africa and Vumatel, is now worth more than Telkom, the company that once enjoyed an absolute monopoly over telecommunications in South Africa.
A wholesale open-access network in Mexico, designed to break the dominance of the incumbent telecommunications operator and once lauded by South Africa’s government, has gone bust.
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.