Cellular shops in malls and shopping centres are to be closed to ensure more employees remain at home during the lockdown.

Despite the alleged harassment endured by some of its employees at the hands of police enforcing the COVID-19 lockdown rules, the telco’s stores will be open.

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

The mobile operator says it is among the largest taxpayers in many of the markets it operates in.

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

The companies join the fight against the coronavirus, zero-rating information portals being run by the Department of Health.

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 competition watchdog says there is no agreement between itself and MTN, saying the operator’s data price reduction proposal was a “unilateral commercial response”.

The communications minister believes an online hackathon can find solutions to address the spread of COVID-19.