ARTICLES RELATING TO
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cellular network provider Vodacom is expecting interim headline earnings per share to be between 20% and 25% higher than last year.
Telkom shares have jumped on speculation that the struggling telecommunications firm could merge with unlisted Cell C.
The R449m fine on Telkom for abusing its dominance in the telecommunications market will reduce cash flow and increase leverage, ratings agency Moody’s has warned.
Should universal access to phones give way to market forces?
Africa offers promise and peril to telcos.
Construction of the world's tallest self-supporting communications tower, the Tokyo Sky Tree, is set to finish today after being delayed by 2011's disasters.
SA competes to host world's most powerful telescope
AT&T has dropped a controversial attempt to buy Deutsche Telekom's US wireless unit.
The International Finance Corporation plans to spend up to $400m on new African telecoms projects that are not commercially attractive to traditional financiers.
Vodacom says it is deregistering approximately one million inactive SIM cards to improve the effectiveness of the Regulation of Interception of Communication Act.
Global telecommunications firm Bharti Airtel will work with Ericsson to upgrade its African network.
Brands around the world are set to spend $3.3bn on advertising placed on mobile phones in 2011, says research group Gartner.
India's Tata Communications is to up its holding in Neotel, South Africa's second fixed-line phone operator.
Electronics firm Reunert's tie-up with ECN Telecommunications has been given the green light by the Competition Tribunal.
A R1.1bn loss from its mobile business and costs from staff severance packages have dragged down Telkom's profit for the year.
