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.

Africa's biggest mobile telecoms firm, MTN Group, plans to launch a mobile service in Namibia in August.

This week's National Tender Bulletin sees government on the hunt for software.

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

One tank of petrol could cost you more than the monthly rental of the Wanatel Cloud PBX used in your office.

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.

VMware updates its NFV-OpenStack platform, which will help telcos modernise their infrastructure and bring 5G to market.

The Vodacom group announces what it says is the largest BEE transaction in the sector to date.

Chairman Yin Yimin apologises to staff and customers after ZTE agreed to pay a $1 billion fine to the US to end a supplier ban that crippled its business.

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