Shares in SA’s telecommunications companies rose on Friday after President Cyril Ramaphosa said the long-delayed spectrum licensing process will start within weeks.

Mobile operators have said for years that their limited access to radio waves, or spectrum, is pushing up costs for consumers and themselves, since they need to counter the shortage by building more towers...

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