Simo Mkhize re-joins Cell C from MTN SA, having spent the last 13 years in various commercial executive roles in SA’s major operators.

SA’s third biggest mobile operator will, by 1 May, launch a free lifeline package capped at 250KB per day.

SA’s leading mobile carriers say the telecoms industry has been designated an essential service and they are taking this responsibility seriously.

The bank offers 1GB free data to customers during the nationwide lockdown, as SA looks to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

The liberal think tank says recent recommendations by the Competition Commission for the operators to cut data prices by half are misplaced.

The Skype-enabled 24-hour command centre will assist the victims of gender-based violence during the 21-day national lockdown.

The regulator and mobile operators look for ways to ease congestion and ensure good quality of broadband services during the nationwide lockdown.

In the second half of 2019, Cell C showed encouraging signs in the context of a very difficult business to manage and a tough economic environment, say analysts.

The operator declares a loss of R3.94 billion for the year ended December, compared to a R7.36 billion loss in 2018.

Local telecoms operators are confident they can meet the mass increase in data demand, as workers and students go online to beat the spread of coronavirus.

The bank wants stability at the financially-constrained telco in order to fully grow its mobile virtual network business.

The telco expands its Spaza 5 000 pilot project throughout SA, promising the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs for M4JAM jobbers.