Take Your Number With You

Another hurdle to decent telecoms competition and consumer choice has fallen, with the implementation of individual geographic number portability (GNP) starting in earnest on Monday. After almost five years, fixed-line home phone users can now switch providers, while keeping their numbers. “Geographic number portability is a tool to promote consumer choice in the market,” said […]

Itec partners with iConnect

Itec, a leading provider of telecom and office automation solutions, has partnered with iConnect Telecommunications and ECN Telecoms to offer its customers a set of Internet Protocol telephony (IP) solutions that can help them drive down their telecom costs by up to 30%. The company adds these IP telephony solutions to a telecom product portfolio […]

ICASA faces operator standoff

In a bid to prevent a dramatic termination rate cut, mobile operators have said recently drafted mobile termination regulations are outside of the law. Public hearings on the regulations are expected to begin next week, with almost all industry players taking a spot to discuss the value of the regulations at the Independent Communications Authority […]