Safaricom’s AGM on 31 July will formalise who really controls East Africa’s biggest operator.
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Operators say the rapid deployment rules, now in draft form, ignore the municipal wayleave bottleneck.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional interest in Safaricom, taking majority control.
South African operators have agreed interim measures to curb Sim fraud while pressing government for Rica reforms.
Vodacom is deepening its relationship with Amazon as both chase a bigger share of household spending.
Being late to the party isn’t the real problem – it’s showing up with nothing new to offer.
Stakeholders have until 21 August to weigh in before parliament decides the sector’s regulatory future.
South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.