South Africa’s biggest IT distributor, the Pinnacle Group, is upping gears and positioning itself for the future with a number of key strategic announcements which will see a shuffling of top executives, as well as the formation of an additional subsidiary which will focus on new technologies and acquisitions.
Africa may well be the next frontier for growth and expansion for global telecom operators, but a number of major players have encountered serious challenges around the profitability of their investments in trying to establish a sustainable and economically viable footprint on the continent.
CIOs expect digital revenue will grow from 17% in 2015 to 38% of total private sector revenue by 2020, according to a Gartner survey of 1 075 CIOs in EMEA.
Ericsson and Cisco have signed a global business and technology partnership to create the networks of the future.
Telkom has confirmed what the market has been speculating about for some time: that it is in talks to buy Cell C.
