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The deadline for companies to apply to take part in the auction was 28 December. The companies that have applied to take part are Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Cell C, Liquid Intelligent Technologies (formerly Liquid Telecom) and Rain. No international telecoms operators have elected to take part in the auction, which is set to take place by no later than 31 March 2021. The companies that have applied to take part are Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, Cell C, Liquid Intelligent Technologies and Rain A seventh application, from an organisation called Women Building a Better Society, was disqualified as it reached...

Top data centre launches of 2020 22 December 2020 | Capacity team Worldwide spend on data centre hardware and software increased by 2% from the third quarter of 2019, caused by a 21% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, according to new Q3 data from Synergy Research Group. The research group found that enterprise spending on their own data centre infrastructure dropped 8% from last year, the third consecutive quarter to feature a substantial decline. In terms of market share, ODMs in aggregate accounted for the largest portion of the public cloud market, with Huawei, Dell ...

Safaricom group taps Sh55bn loan for Ethiopia entry Monday December 21 2020 By VICTOR JUMA Summary Safaricom and its parent companies Vodafone Group Plc and Vodacom Group Limited have formed a joint venture – Global Partnership for Ethiopia — through which they are bidding for one of two telecommunications licences being auctioned in that country. The financial investment in Ethiopia is expected to top the $1 billion (Sh111 billion) mark, with the DFC loan deal seen as part of the project’s fundraising efforts. Safaricom had earlier said it was ready to take more debt in its role as the...

by CHRISTOPH KLEIN JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – Telecommunications and Broadcasting Regulator ICASA’s justification for the imposition of license fees for COVID emergency spectrum does not stand up to scrutiny. In April, Regulator ICASA released the emergency spectrum to incumbent licensees in five different frequency bands valid until three months after termination of the South Africa’s COVID national state of disaster or 30 November 2020 (whichever occurs first), for which carriers and the general public praised the SA Government. At the same time, the move demonstrated that spectrum w...

What you need to know about Strive Masiyiwa, the Zim billionaire now on Netflix’s board Business Insider SA facebook Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa has been appointed to the board of Netflix. He made his money doing work for the government of Zimbabwe, then took it to court for the right to run a cellphone network. His empire has been built with a fair amount of acrimony, and legal battles, across various parts of Africa. Here's what you need to know about him. He has been called a maverick, "charismatic and controversial", and "Africa's Warren Bu...