Dina Pule is feeling the love, and she’s not happy about it. South Africa’s communication minister says she has been the target of a 10-month “smear campaign” by the Sunday Times, which included a proposal of “love” from a friend...
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In South African Digital TV Shift, Claims of Love Offers and Graft
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Forget the Batphone. Here Comes the Merkelphone
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is getting a new phone. In fact, she’s buying almost 10,000 of them, for something in the neighborhood of $31 million. This summer, the German government will get the first of about 9,600 hack-proof handsets. The...
Read more »Europe’s Airwave Auctions Wrong, Says Deutsche Telekom Chief
When a government is buried in debt, making money from thin air sure sounds like a good idea. The U.K. and the Netherlands were among the latest European countries to sell wireless frequencies — the right to use certain airwaves...
Read more »Europe’s Telecoms Feel the Pain, Take It Out on Workers
These are tough times for Europe’s telecom-equipment makers. Weakening demand for hardware and intensifying competition from Chinese gear manufacturers Huawei Technologies and ZTE are taking a toll on some of the region’s top companies, judging from news out of Europe...
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