Econet Wireless is exercising its pre-emptive rights to buy Eskom's majority stake in Mountain Kingdom Communications.
In today's technology roundup: Google takes on Microsoft, Cisco's iPhone flawed, Google champions anti-piracy, and gaming can help burn calories.
The new Companies Bill could declare telecoms firms as "public interest companies".
Vodacom will be served with a 48-hours strike notice this week.
An unemployed KwaZulu-Natal Vodacom customer won the R500 000 Valentine's Day bonus in the Yebo Millionaires Game Show.
Vodafone Ireland will install Airwide Solutions' AirMessenger Routers across its network.
A new report from Portico Research forecasts a healthy future for SMS.
Virgin Mobile trims subscriber targets, but insists there are still opportunities in SA's mobile market.
In today's technology roundup: Cuba migrates to open source, Internet sex addict sues IBM for $5m, focus on India at 3GSM, and Net giant supports OpenID scheme.
Panda Software has introduced the beta version of Panda MobileSecurity based on Symbian Series 60.
Motorola unveiled a portfolio of mobile and wireless products at the 3GSM World Congress in Spain last week.
MTN's purchase of SAT 2 access will have an insignificant impact on broadband prices, say observers.
Vodacom is still in the process of implementing what could be this year's biggest BEE deal.