Wednesday, 27 June 2007

MTN mulls building fixed network in South Africa

(Reuters) - African mobile operator MTN may build its own fixed-line network in South Africa to trim the levies it has to pay former monopoly Telkom to use its backbone and to meet demand for Internet access.

MTN's new head of southern and east Africa, Tim Lowry, said the company had paid about 10 million rand to build a pilot fibre optic cable linking Johannesburg's business hubs and may expand this to other key areas.


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