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/ 15 November 2004
South African-based Vodacom said on Monday that it was still interested in pursuing business opportunities in Nigeria, and planned on evaluating other opportunities in Africa. Vodacom is a pan-African mobile group providing GSM services to more than 13-million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=125539">Vodacom revenue up 20,3%</a>
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/ 8 November 2004
The chairperson of South Africa’s national daily ThisDay, Nduka Obaigbena, is expected to announce the newspaper’s fate after a staff meeting due to be held on Wednesday, said ThisDay executive director and special adviser to Obaigbena, Gbenga Oni-Olusola.
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/ 1 November 2004
South Africa’s long-awaited Convergence Bill will be passed next year, Director General of Communications Lyndall Shope-Mafole said on Monday. Convergence means carrying all types of communication on one digital network — comprising voice, data, internet and other information and communications technology platforms.
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/ 26 October 2004
Minister of Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on Tuesday announced that the third, unnamed bidder for the second national operator (SNO) failed to meet the required deadline and subsequently was disqualified. As a result, the unsuccessful bidder leaves the competition open for Tata Africa Holdings and Old Mutual Asset Managers.
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/ 19 October 2004
Telecommunications group Alcatel’s South African operation — in partnership with its empowerment partners, New Seasons — is set to explore information and communications technology (ICT) investment opportunities in South Africa and across the continent, Alcatel South Africa chairperson Peter Vundla said on Tuesday.
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/ 13 October 2004
Information technology group Dimension Data (Didata) said on Wednesday it is not planning to shed jobs in its Johannesburg global services centre (GSC) in favour of India, or relocating its local call centres to India. Singapore-listed subsidiary Datacraft Asia has launched a GSC in Bangalore.
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/ 17 September 2004
Although the entrance of the country’s second national operator (SNO) is seen as a threat to Telkom’s future revenues, the dual-listed telecommunications giant on Friday said it welcomes Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s granting of the licence to the second operator.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=122326">Government grants SNO licence</a>
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/ 8 September 2004
Business Banking, a division of Nedbank Corporate servicing medium-sized businesses, has shown a strong commitment to black economic empowerment (BEE) with the national roll-out of its empowerment strategy — driven by Portia Nondo, head of BEE at Business Banking.
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/ 7 September 2004
South Africa’s largest mobile telecommunications group, Vodacom, on Tuesday unveiled the country’s first initiative to make cellular communications accessible to all South Africans, especially people with disabilities. The phone enables blind people to access voice and text services via text-to-speech technology.
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/ 3 September 2004
Shares in the South African telecommunications titan Telkom plummeted on Friday morning following the telecommunications industry liberalisation announced by Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on Thursday afternoon. The minister unveiled sweeping changes in the sector.