First commercial 5G rollouts in 2018: Ericsson

Dark Fibre Africa sees a lot of opportunity coming from the approaching roll-out of 5G in South Africa.

South Africa gets the nod from the satellite organisation, as telecoms and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele is elected as chairperson.

Although there are many players in the market, in future the industry will consolidate, says Community Investment Ventures Holdings.

The company increases its subsea cable network capacity by 500Gbps to reach 1.5Tbps.

Despite government's poor reputation in running companies, the telecoms ministry is confident establishing two new state-owned ICT companies bodes well for the country.

Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH) acquires 34.9% of Vumatel and enters into an agreement to acquire the remaining 65.1%.

The company undergoes structural changes while looking to make acquisitions to boost its fibre network.

The regulator will tomorrow host public hearings with regards to its discussion document on priority markets and the cost of mobile data.

The group's 28th acquisition is of VTN Communications, a national provider of voice over Internet Protocol and private automatic branch exchange systems.

The country is expected to show the highest ICT spend across the META region this year, says a Huawei barometer.

IC Logistix decided that radio frequency-tracking was the best way to find the stolen property, and also to retrieve the items safely, says Zach Yacumakis, Managing Director at IC Logistix.

Many players haven't come to grips with the commercial models in IOT, says Darren Oxlee, chief technical officer of Utility Systems, a MICROmega Group company.