South Africa

Opera, the Norwegian software developer, has announced that usage of its mobile web browser, Opera Mini, has been soaring in Africa, increasing 180% during the nine months to... 2008-10-24

Africa's largest mobile phone company by customer numbers, South Africa based MTN, is considering moving into the mobile market of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reports... 2008-09-23

Telkom South Africa , the majority shareholder of Multi-Links, one of Nigeria's many small CDMA operators, has announced plans to invest ZAR4.3bn (US$533mn) during 2009 in expanding... 2008-09-18

The chief executive of international mobile operator MTN has revealed the extent of the company's expansion ambitions to the Financial Times. Phuthuma Nhleko has said that the South... 2008-09-01

Neotel, South Africa's second largest fixed-line operator has signed deals worth a total of ZAR1.5bn (US$205.1mn) with around half of the country's leading 350 corporate customers.... 2008-08-04

Sentech, South Africa's state-backed telecoms operator, risks becoming the first casualty of regulatory body ICASA's 'use it or lose it' policy. Earlier this year in March, the... 2008-07-24

Tata Communications has entered into an agreement with South African state-owned companies Eskom and Transnet to acquire their 30% shareholding for an undisclosed amount.... 2008-06-25

Japan's largest mobile communications operator, NTT DoCoMo, is looking to expand overseas in order to diversify its revenue streams and growth opportunities in the face of increasing... 2008-06-20

South Africa's second national fixed-line network operator, Neotel, has named local equipment vendor Tellumat as its preferred supplier of its new national wireless broadband network,... 2008-06-16

Kuwait-based Zain plans to bid for South Africa's fourth mobile phone licence next year and is looking to make three or four purchases of existing operators elsewhere on the African... 2008-06-09