Browsing: Vodacom

Telkom has threatened to launch legal action against communications regulator Icasa over a planned spectrum auction. Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has asked the high

Communications regulator Icasa was wrong to push ahead with a planned spectrum auction in the absence of government policy on the issue and should withdraw an invitation to operators to apply for access until that policy

Vodacom has become the first operator to respond to the aggressive new “FreeMe” tariff plans from Telkom. But the country’s biggest operator is not exactly shouting about its new “+ (Plus)” plans from the

The share price of Vodacom’s black economic empowerment scheme YeboYethu was down by nearly 5% on Thursday – with the telecommunication giant’s scheme marking its first day of trade on the JSE

YeboYethu, Vodacom South Africa’s black economic empowerment scheme created in 2008, began trading on the empowerment segment in the telecommunications sector of the JSE’s main board on Thursday. YeboYethu

What more is there to say about MTN? It’s been an especially horrific 12 months for the company (and shareholders). But the group is sitting with a very large problem (to be fair, it has many others too): it is

Operationally, the time-suck on executive leadership from the Nigerian fine fallout had nothing to do with its other units across Africa and the Middle East. It’s always managed to run its “OpCos” quite independently, which arguably has a few more

South Africa’s telecommunications & postal services ministry filed a suit to block the sale of more than R12bn of wireless spectrum by the industry regulator, potentially depriving mobile carriers in the country of much-needed capacity to increase high-speed

A planned sale of shares in Vodacom by the Public Investment Corp to black investors has been abandoned, according to two people familiar with the situation. The proposed sale by Africa’s biggest