The allocation of spectrum is among the structural reforms government plans to accelerate, states the 2021 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
National Treasury data shows the communications sector is among those that recorded gains during the first half of the year.
Cassava Technologies operates the largest independent Pan-African terrestrial fibre broadband network, covering over 300 towns and cities across Africa.
The companies have deployed the largest commercial SPN/PTN cloud-based OMC system.
The regulator invites applications from operators for provisional assignment of radio frequency spectrum under the new National State of Disaster Regulations.
The telco will now hold a co-controlling 30% equity in a newly-formed fibre entity and has the option to acquire an additional 10% stake.
The challenging economic and trading environment saw restrained half-year growth, supported by the telco’s mobile division and masts and towers business.
The International Finance Corporation will support Liquid Intelligent Technologies to grow its hyperscale data centre capacity in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and SA.
The SA Post Office records less than 60 000 registrations for subsidised set-top boxes, despite government’s efforts to ramp-up the much-delayed switch to digital TV.
In this latest agreement, MTN South Africa has been added by Telkom for the provision of 2G, 3G and 4G services.
ZTE’s 5G CDN solution, based on the lightweight virtualised CDN, is proposed to handle today’s growing demands for traffic and bandwidth.