Shareholders in telecommunications company Vox, including Rand Merchant Bank, have agreed to buy out fellow investor Investec as part of a R2-billion recapitalisation of the company.
In its policy paper published this week, national treasury devoted considerable space to the telecommunications sector. Though many of the proposals make sense, an anachronism stuck out. By Duncan McLeod.
Telkom’s copper-based digital subscriber line network is living on borrowed time. By Duncan McLeod.
Calvin Collett, MD of Supersonic, the new fibre-to-the-home provider in the MTN South Africa stable, believes there is a big business opportunity to roll out broadband infrastructure in South Africa’s townships.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Vumatel’s plans to roll out fibre broadband in Mitchell’s Plain and Alexandra. Can fibre be delivered to lower-income and even poor areas profitably?
Vumatel has started rolling out fibre-to-the-home broadband in Mitchell’s Plain, while at the same time it is finally gearing up to begin a roll-out of fibre in the impoverished Johannesburg suburb of Alexandra.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Vumatel CEO Dietlof Mare about the fibre-to-the-home provider’s roll-out of fibre to Mitchell’s Plain and the company’s plan to deploy fibre infrastructure in Alexandra.
Cape Town-focused fibre-to-the-home infrastructure operator Octotel said it is now the third-largest fibre provider in the country, behind Openserve and Vumatel, after reaching 100 000 homes passed.
The Competition Tribunal has approved the acquisition by Remgro’s Community Investment Ventures Holdings of Vumatel, but has attached long-term conditions to the sale.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack what has been a dramatic two weeks for JSE-listed technology services group EOH.