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10 March 2010
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Plaudits for Nhleko, but ‘it is time to go’
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Simon Mundy
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Phuthuma Nhleko’s eight years as MTN CEO have been a period of stupendous growth for the company. Nhleko will leave in March next year, he announced yesterday. Thanks largely to his relentless ambition, MTN is well established as Africa’s biggest cellphone operator, with more than 100-million subscribers on the continent and in the Middle East. The MTN Group — only 16 years old — now has a market capitalisation of nearly R210bn, and thriving customer bases from Afghanistan to Zambia.
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Business Day
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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Gaps for bridge-builders
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Evan Pickworth
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Telecommunications still offers plenty of opportunity for operators in Africa as only half of the continent's 800m population are connected to a service. In some countries, penetration is as low as 27%. According to the SA Internet Service Providers' Association website, more than 100 of its 157 members are small operators.
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Financial Mail
Friday, February 26, 2010
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Lifeline under the sea
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Larry Claasen
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It's been a tough few months for telecommunications companies, but the landing of an undersea cable has given them something to smile about. The US$280m East Africa Submarine Cable System (Eassy) arrived at Mtunzini, on the KwaZulu Natal north coast, this week. Operators claim it will cut prices...
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Financial Mail
Friday, February 19, 2010
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Telkom sets pace by cutting cellphone call rates
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Linda Ensor
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Competition in the telecoms sector is gaining momentum. Yesterday Telkom announced a 22% reduction in its peak rate for fixed-line calls to cellphones from next month at a cost to itself of about R1,3bn. This is a 100% “pass through” of the reduction of the mobile termination rates agreed to by cellphone operators, which will bring peak rates from R1,25 to 89c and off-peak rates to 77c.
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Financial Mail
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Bharti hits green button to signal battle with MTN is on
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Simon Mundy
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Five months after the collapse of a proposed tie-up between MTN and India’s Bharti Airtel, the two are set to go head-to-head in Africa’s cellphone industry, after Bharti launched a $10,7bn bid for most of the African operations of Kuwaiti telecommunications company Zain. Under the terms of the deal, India’s largest cellphone operator will take over Zain’s units in 15 African countries.
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Business Day
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Cellphone tariffs ‘will not fall soon’
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Simon Mundy
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Cellphone users will have to wait a bit longer before seeing benefits of the reduction of interconnection costs due to the complex relationship between interconnection fees and retail prices, experts say. Allison Gillwald, executive director of Research ICT Africa, said it was unlikely for cellphone users to immediately see their fees fall significantly because “the way the business is costed, and the way the systems are operated, will need time to be adjusted”.
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Business Day
Monday, February 15, 2010
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Icasa tries out its teeth
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Larry Claasen
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All of a sudden, Icasa is being treated like a hero. The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has been on the receiving end of some sharp criticism from parliamentarians and the department of communications over the past few months. But its rejection of a proposed deal to cut interconnection fees - the rate that operators charge each other for transmitting calls over each other's networks - has won it rare praise.
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Financial Mail
Friday, February 12, 2010
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Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) was meant to have found itself on more certain ground with the gazetting of the Codes of Good Practice in 2007. After all the years of anticipating an end to the moving targets and constantly shifting playing fields, the South African business community had cause to celebrate the birth of a decade of BEE certainty as the Codes superseded the plethora of sector charters and corporate self regulation.
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