Blue Label Telecoms’ planned R1.9bn acquisition of handset distributor 3G Mobile – parent of The Equipment Company – forms part of a plan by the JSE-listed company to get customers that already buy its products, including
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It’s surprising that the country’s major mobile operators haven’t trumpeted the death of R2/MB charges for out-of-bundle data. That pricing – a staple of the industry since Vodacom’s launch of 3G services in 2004 – has practically disappeared
South African Airways has identified Vodacom Group executive Vuyani Jarana as the leading candidate to become the struggling state-owned carrier’s first permanent CEO since November 2015, according to three people familiar with
Mobile operator MTN South Africa has poached Telkom’s top communications executive. Jacqui O’Sullivan has resigned from the partially state-owned telecommunications provider, where she has served as managing executive
Vodacom has opened a narrowband Internet of things laboratory at its campus in Midrand. The lab will be used to incubate and then commercialise machine-to-machine and IoT systems using narrowband networking, it said
On TalkCentral this week, Vodacom breaks the 500Mbit/s mobile download barrier, Uber’s CEO quits and Liquid Telecom outlines its plans for Neotel. Plus, it seems you can now “root” your drone. Also this week, we pick our best deals
Tanzania will allow foreign investors to buy shares in telecommunications companies listing on the domestic stock exchange after an initial public offering by the country’s biggest mobile operator stalled. Changes will be introduced
[dropcap]L[/dropcap]iquid Telecom believes there is a big opportunity to exploit the spectrum assets held by Neotel, the company it acquired…
Vodacom claims to have become the first telecommunications operator in South Africa to achieve a speed test, across a mobile network, of more than 500Mbit/s. It achieved the speed using LTE-Advanced technology, also
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub took home a total of R21,4m in the 2017 financial year, the group revealed in its annual report, published on Thursday. That’s a small decline on the R21,8m he was paid in 2016. Joosub’s 2017 package