Telecom
Tata Communications to sell SA arm Neotel to Vodacom for $676 mn
19 May 2014
Neotel, South Africa’s second-biggest fixed-line phone operator, is 68.5 per cent owned by Tata Comm
AT&T to buy US satellite-television provider DirecTV for $48.5 bn
19 May 2014
A successful deal would combine AT&T, the second-largest wireless carrier and the largest satellite television company in the US, exceeding the deal size of Comcast's $45-billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable
London manufacturer OwnFone introduces first Braille phone
19 May 2014
The phone can be personalised with two or four Braille buttons, pre-programmed to call friends, family, carers or the emergency services
BBM to expand presence to Windows phones
16 May 2014
FCC to move ahead with rules for open internet
16 May 2014
The US telecom regulator has voted to prohibit high-speed internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against smaller broadband users
GSM operators add 4.97 million users in April
15 May 2014
