South Africa

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

South Africa's third largest cellular operator, Cell C, has reported a 44% increase in subscribers for the year ended December 31 2007, on the back of a 17% rise in revenue and... 2008-04-16

Incumbent South African fixed-line operator, Telkom SA, has rejected an approach from Oger Telecom, saying that it will not consider the sale of the group or any of its units or... 2008-03-31

iBurst, the South African wireless broadband operator, has reduced the price of its voice call tariffs by as much as 50% in an effort to obtain greater market share from incumbent... 2008-03-05

Telkom, South Africa's incumbent operator, has applied for a mobile operating licence on the 1800MHz band from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA),... 2008-02-19