There’s justification for the fibre assets of state-owned entities to be consolidated, says deputy minister Philly Mapulane.
ZTE Corporation, China Railway Guangzhou Group, China Mobile, Beijing Jiaotong University and Liujie Science and Technology jointly won second prize for their Guangzhou 5G Smart Railway case.
The mobile operator plans to roll out a fixed-LTE product before year-end, laying the ground for its new business model.
The telco aims to rollout 135 000km of fibre by 2025, seeking to generate up to $1 billion revenue.
The company’s fibre entities – Dark Fibre Africa and Vumatel − report gains in the financial year, making notable contributions to group earnings.
Internet services for home use may have overtaken insurance as people’s biggest grudge purchase, says Wayne D’sa, CEO of CipherWave Business Solutions.
Capitec collaborates with Cell C to become the latest bank to introduce a mobile virtual network operator service.
The pay-TV giant expands its DStv Internet offering with a fibre option and launches its streaming box, DStv Streama − both available from 1 October.
The new money will flow into the debt-laden mobile operator, to address the company’s financial and operational liabilities.
South African mobile operators are forking out billions of rands to mitigate the chaos caused by the escalating rolling power outages.
The ZTE set-top box adopts Amlogic’s high-performance chipset based on the quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 architecture.