| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.06.2025 | The Digital Divide: South Africa's Telecom Landscape and the Starlink Dilemma | In the vast expanse of South Africa's telecommunications landscape, a storm brews. The winds of change are blowing, fueled by the introduction of new policies and the looming presence of satellite internet giants like Starlink. As the count... |
| 06.06.2025 | TCS | Nomvuyiso Batyi on Starlink, BEE reform and spectrum | What should one make of the noise surrounding the licensing (or non-licensing) of Starlink in South Africa? And what of the plans to reform the rules around black economic empowerment in the sector?
To make sense of these developments – and... |
| 05.06.2025 | Telecoms operators back BEE reforms – but warn against favouritism | Nomvuyiso Batyi
Telecommunications industry lobby group the Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) has said it supports efforts by communications minister Solly Malatsi to introduce equity equivalence investment programmes (EEIPs) in ... |
| 19.03.2025 | Rain's Rising Value: A New Dawn for ARC Investments | In the world of investments, numbers tell stories. Recently, Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital (ARC) Investments unveiled a striking valuation for Rain, its wireless network provider. The figure? A staggering R25.9 billion. This val... |
| 18.03.2025 | Patrice Motsepe’s ARC values Rain at R25.9-billion in latest report | Wireless network provider Rain is worth almost R26-billion, according to the latest valuation by one of its key shareholders, Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital (ARC) Investments.
ARC Investments disclosed the figure on Tuesday in it... |
| 18.03.2025 | Rain investor ARC Investments to pursue JSE delisting | Patrice Motsepe. Image: World Economic Forum
Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital Investments (ARCI), which owns stakes in TymeBank and Rain, is planning to delist from the JSE and redomicile in South Africa.
According to a statement t... |
| 05.02.2025 | Mobile networks plead for fair licensing rules as Starlink eyes South Africa launch | South Africa’s mobile network operators, through their lobby group ACT, have told Icasa that there needs to be fairness in the licensing regime – just as Elon Musk’s Starlink is lobbying hard for a change to the rules.
ACT, or the Associati... |
| 06.11.2024 | Vodacom and Maziv: a contrarian viewpoint | Since the news broke last week that Vodacom, South Africa’s largest cellular network operator, had its bid to buy fibre network operator Maziv blocked by the Competition Commission, we’ve been inundated by sob stories of how this “setback” ... |
| 04.11.2024 | Blocked Vodacom-Maziv deal derails telecoms M&A | The Competition Tribunal’s decision to block a merger between Vodacom and fibre operator Maziv will likely derail a push by South African telecommunications firms to use big M&A deals as a shortcut to digital infrastructure expansion, a... |
| 24.10.2024 | The Spectrum Showdown: Navigating the 6GHz Band and Connectivity Future | The battle for the 6GHz spectrum is heating up. It’s a clash of titans: cellular operators versus the Wi-Fi industry. Both sides are vying for a piece of the bandwidth pie. The stakes are high. Connectivity is the lifeblood of modern societ... |
| 22.10.2024 | The fight over the 6GHz band and the future of connectivity | The battle for the 6GHz spectrum band is hotting up in South Africa, mirroring global debates on the allocation of spectrum between Wi-Fi and IMT (cellular) operators. The core of this conflict is the need for additional bandwidth to meet t... |
| 17.09.2024 | The Telecommunications Tug-of-War: Growth and Misleading Claims in South Africa's Market | In the bustling world of telecommunications, two stories emerge from South Africa. One tells of growth and innovation, while the other warns of misleading promises. Together, they paint a vivid picture of a market in flux.
Rain, a wireless ... |
| 16.09.2024 | R25-billion valuation for Rain – up 16% from last year | A Rain engineer working on a telecommunications tower in Cape Town
Rain shareholder African Rainbow Capital (ARC) Investments has valued the wireless broadband operator at R25-billion, nearly double Telkom’s R14-billion market capitalisatio... |
| 30.08.2024 | Rain standalone mobile product launched at R165/month | Rain, the telecommunications operator specialising in fixed-wireless access products, now has a standalone offering aimed at mobile devices.
The new product, named Rain Mobile, offers a 4G Sim with 2GB of data, 60 minutes and 100 SMSes for ... |
| 18.07.2024 | No load shedding – but ‘load reduction’ still hurting telcos | Nomvuyiso Batyi
Telecommunications industry lobby group the Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) – which represents South Africa’s big telecommunications operators – has warned that the suspension of load shedding at national level ... |
| 30.05.2024 | Minister sets new dates for 2G, 3G shutdown in South Africa | Communications minister Mondli Gungubele
Government has set a new date for 2G and 3G mobile networks in South Africa to be shut down in South Africa.
According to a new policy document published on the eve of the general election, governmen... |
| 24.05.2024 | Vodacom drags Icasa to court over ‘secret’ spectrum deals | Vodacom has filed an application at the high court in Pretoria seeking an urgent interdict to stop rival MTN from using “spectrum pooling” arrangements that it claims were approved unlawfully by communications regulator Icasa in June 2022.
... |
| 20.05.2024 | Commission argues Vodacom, Maziv deal must be blocked | Competition Tribunal hearings into the proposed merger between Vodacom and Maziv kicked off in Pretoria on Monday.
The Competition Commission was first to present, using the hearings to reiterate its view that the merger of Vodacom and fibr... |
| 19.05.2024 | High-stakes hearings to begin into Vodacom, Vumatel deal | This Monday sees the start of two months of Competition Tribunal hearings into Vodacom Group’s planned acquisition of a 30-40% stake in Maziv, the parent company of fibre operators Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa.
The Competition Commission l... |
| 19.03.2024 | Remgro CEO slams regulators over deal delays | Remgro CEO Jannie Durand. Image: Remgro
Remgro CEO Jannie Durand has criticised South African regulators for the time it takes to get deals concluded, saying this is undermining investor confidence.
Although Durand didn’t name any regulator... |
| 14.09.2023 | Rain now valued at twice Telkom’s market cap | An engineer working on a Rain telecommunications tower in Cape Town. Image: Rain
Rain shareholder African Rainbow Capital (ARC) Investments has valued the wireless broadband upstart at R22.2-billion, nearly twice Telkom’s current market cap... |
| 05.05.2023 | Rain in roaming deal with Vodacom for new mobile service | A technician working on one of Rain’s high sites
Rain, which on Thursday took the wraps off its first mobile-focused offerings, has signed a roaming agreement with Vodacom to provide gap coverage where it hasn’t yet been able to expand its ... |
| 16.03.2023 | Rain to report full-year Ebitda north of R2-billion | Rain is on course to achieve earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of more than R2-billion for the year ended February 2023, after considering IFRS 16 adjustments, “as is industry practice”, one of its largest... |
| 10.03.2020 | Cell C and Rain still have much cheaper data – even after Vodacom’s 30% price slash | (Instagram, @vodacom)
SA’s largest mobile network provider Vodacom said it will cut prices by as much as 34% in April after an agreement with the Competition Commission.
This will make Vodacom’s data cheaper than MTN’s, but still more expen... |
| 03.12.2019 | rain launches 5G transport network in South Africa | rain
South African mobile data network operator, rain, has announced that it has launched its intelligent 5G transport network in partnership with Huawei. Transport networks are simply “neural networks” that connect core networks to service... |
| 20.09.2019 | rain set to launch Africa’s first 5G network | rain
Network provider, rain has announced the activation of what is said to be Africa’s first commercial 5G network. The company is making 5G available to all existing customers in certain parts of Johannesburg and Tshwane. rain has said th... |
| 18.09.2019 | South Africa’s first 5G network is now live in parts of Johannesburg and Tshwane – here’s what you’ll pay | (supplied, Rain)
Data-only network provider Rain has launched its 5G network in parts of Joburg and Tshwane.
Users will pay R1,000 a month for uncapped internet access.
Rain said its 5G network will have speeds around 200 Mbps – compared to... |
| 26.04.2019 | This successful SA exec got his big break with a funny CV - here's how you can make yours stand out | Marketing maven, Khaya Dlanga knew that his lack of qualification would be a hurdle to his dreams if he didn't take the opportunity to make his skills stand out over his shortcomings. Instagram
Khaya Dlanga had to drop out of advertising sc... |
| 29.06.2018 | Five SA angel investors you want to meet | If you’re a startup and you need money the chances are you are going to look to friends and relatives for help. Or you could try an angel investor.
Angel investors often choose to operate in the shadows, as a silent investor — which means i... |
| 29.06.2018 | Five SA angel investors you want to meet | If you’re a startup and you need money the chances are you are going to look to friends and relatives for help. Or you could try an angel investor.
Angel investors often choose to operate in the shadows, as a silent investor — which means ... |
| 26.06.2018 | Rain compensates customers with unlimited free data for June | Rain, a data-focused mobile network, has announced that it is giving customers unlimited free data for June and refunding SIM delivery costs. Rain offers users a single plan of 5c per MB, which works out to R50 per GB, and users only pay fo... |
| 24.04.2018 | Startups should tackle real problems, not ‘stupid stuff’ says Michael Jordaan | South African venture capitalist Michael Jordaan says South African startups should focus on helping solve some of the country’s many social and economic problems, rather than develop the “stupid, stupid stuff” that entrepreneurs often pitc... |
| 24.04.2018 | Startups should tackle real problems, not ‘stupid stuff’ says Michael Jordaan | South African venture capitalist Michael Jordaan says South African startups should focus on helping solve some of the country’s many social and economic problems, rather than develop the “stupid, stupid stuff” that entrepreneurs often pitc... |
| 12.03.2018 | An OUTsurance founder just landed a R350 million payday – but he's not shopping for private islands just quite yet | On Monday, Rand Merchant Investment Holdings disclosed it had paid R350 million to previous OUTsurance CEO Willem Roos for shares in that insurance company.
But that payment was for only a small part of his shares; Roos will remain a signif... |
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| - | Rain in trouble for announcing possible Telkom merger | Rain, the data service provider, is requested to retract their announcement to propose a merger with Telkom. PHOTO: MyBroadband
Data network provider Rain announced it will request Telkom to kick MTN to the curb and merge with them instead.... |