Telkom South Africa
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Telkom, South Africa’s incumbent operator, wants to sell a minority stake in Openserve, its wholesale last-mile fibre unit. -
South Africa’s Telkom is to offer wholesale capacity on its mobile network to virtual network operators, the company said this week.
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South African operators Telkom and Rain have terminated discussions about a potential merger that would have seen them compete more strongly with MTN and Vodacom.
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South African telco Rain faces strong opposition from South Africa’s Takeover Regulation Panel (TRP) after it proposed a tie-up with its domestic rival Telkom.
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South Africa’s MTN is in talks to buy its domestic rival Telkom, the operator revealed in an announcement earlier today.
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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has revealed the winners of the first round of its delayed spectrum auction.
Forthcoming events
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South Africa’s spectrum auction will begin the public auction of its high frequency digital spectrum within a month, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
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Public hearings are underway in South Africa today as the regulator garners industry feedback on its call termination regulations implemented in 2014.
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South African regulator ICASA has hit back at Telkom after it emerged that the operator is seeking a court order to prevent regulator ICASA from holding a spectrum auction in March.
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South African telcos Vodacom and MTN have joined Telkom SA’s case against the country’s regulator ICASA over plans to remove temporarily allocated spectrum.
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South Africa’s telecoms regulator has abandoned its spectrum auction in the face of legal opposition but says it wants to run a new auction by the end of January 2022.
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Sipho Maseko, the CEO and executive director of Telkom Group and its subsidiaries, is to step down next year.
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South Africa is to merge its national connectivity business, Broadband Infraco, with its Sentech broadcast network to create a state-owned broadband infrastructure operator.
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The South Africa regulator has given operators another four months’ use of spectrum that was due to expire on Monday.
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South African operator Telkom has signed up with a last-mile fibre operator that is competing with its own subsidiary, Openserve.
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South Africa’s Telkom has announced plans to replace its copper local broadband infrastructure with fibre.
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South Africa’s regulator is about to invite telcos to apply for spectrum to offer 5G services, replacing the temporary spectrum awarded in April.
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The South African government has withdrawn plans for an open-access wholesale mobile network, a proposal that was widely criticised by operators.
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The consortium for Africa-1, a new submarine cable system linking South Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Europe, have signed a Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) for the new system.
