Co-operation with regulatory authorities in neighbouring countries is essential
Cell C has made an aggressive move with its new Epic contract offer, but experts warn that other factors count.
Telkom has announced that it has entered into a heads of agreement with MTN South Africa for the two providers to share each other’s networks.
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Zimbabwe has seen huge growth in the cellphone market, which has surged 646% since 2008
Even though giant operators might disagree with the research, experts say their data shows that SA’s cellphone costs are still too high.
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/ 19 November 2010
Telecommunications conglomerate ZTE Corporation has dismissed claims that it is using illegal Chinese immigrants to deliver a R2,9-billion contract.
It’s been a hellish few days and the reason for my woes is that I needed to select a new cellphone contract, writes <b>Lloyd Gedye</b>.
Until the telecommunications regulator signs off on a new code of conduct for cellphone operators, consumers will continue to be nailed.
Government is leaning on South Africa’s large mobile companies to bring down interconnection rates.
Cellphone companies were meeting the Icasa council on Wednesday to discuss consumer complaints about technical problems.
South Africa’s third-largest wireless firm Cell C reported a 34% jump in subscriber numbers in 2008.
Boost for the economy as cellphone giant ditches Telkom and heads for JSE, reports Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 25 February 2009
The Competition Tribunal on Wednesday unconditionally approved the merger between cellphone companies Vodacom and Vodafone.
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/ 17 February 2009
Leading cellphone makers had good news for anyone with a drawer full of old phone chargers on Tuesday: the industry plans to standardise the device.
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/ 15 January 2009
MTN and Neotel will build a national long-distance fibre-optic network for between R1,7-billion and R2-billion, it was reported on Thursday.
The Competition Tribunal on Thursday unconditionally approved cellphone operator MTN’s acquisition of a 69,4% stake in Verizon SA.
Cellphone operator MTN said on Thursday that its acquisition of Verizon SA won’t thwart competition.
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/ 27 November 2008
MTN doesn’t want me, Vodacom takes me for granted and neither Virgin nor Cell-C are my type. I am switching to pay-as-you-go.
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/ 20 November 2008
Government clings to JSE investments and places its role of policy director in question.