South Africa
Industry
Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC) is to invest US$50mn in Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa (VMMEA), a regional mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). GIC will become one...
2013-03-13Industry
MTN Group plans to spend ZAR28.217bn (US$3.412bn) on capital projects in 2013, according to the company's capex guidance for the year. While MTN expects strong subscriber growth in...
2013-03-08Industry
South African telecoms regulator ICASA has gone ahead with planned mobile termination rate cuts (MTRs) despite objections from mobile operator Cell C. The operator, alongside other...
2013-03-04Industry
Saudi incumbent STC has announced a deal with Ericsson to deploy energy efficient mobile infrastructure starting in Princess Noura University, Riyadh. The deal follows a global procurement...
2013-02-05Industry
Vodacom, Tanzania's biggest mobile operator, has launched 4G LTE network trials in the Msasani Peninsula area of Dar es Salaam, according to the company's managing director, Rene Meza....
2013-02-01Industry
Pan-African fibre and satellite backhaul operator Liquid Telecom has agreed to acquire Altech East Africa (AEA), the East Africa subsidiary of South Africa-based technology firm Altech...
2013-01-30Industry
On January 3 2013, the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) set a price cap for Short Message Service (SMS) across all networks. The new price cap of NGN4 (US$0.0252) per SMS applies...
2013-01-29Industry
France Télécom-Orange has launched a new subsidiary called Orange Horizons to develop business projects in countries where the group does not yet provide mass...
2013-01-17



