Junaid Munshi Eskom has appointed telecommunications govt Junaid Munshi as group govt of its distribution division, efficient 1 June 2026. Munshi has 30 years of engineering, advertising and marketing and industrial management expertise throughout South Africa and several other different African markets. He was most lately chief industrial officer at Cable & Wi-fi Seychelles, the…
The authorized and institutional framework underpinning South Africa’s common service obligations in telecommunications is now not match for objective, trade leaders have warned. The levy paid by licence holders more and more resembles a normal tax fairly than a ring-fenced contribution to closing the nation’s connectivity gaps, they mentioned. Telecoms licensees pay 0.2% of their…
Telecommunications infrastructure theft and energy outages proceed to carry again connectivity in South Africa, with the associated fee burden on cell and fibre operators greater than doubling in a yr. Based on communications regulator Icasa’s newest State of the ICT Sector report, printed final week, the speed of telecoms tools theft grew considerably between 2024…
Kenya’s telecoms regulator has warned that the web disruptions that hit East Africa on Sunday will persist for days and requested service suppliers to make use of different routes. Houses and companies in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and a number of different nations are experiencing sluggish web speeds following a reduce on deep-sea fibre cables…