Author: Duncan McLeod

The West African Cable System has suffered another break – at the worst possible time for South Africa, with many people now relying on home broadband connections to work.

The Competition Tribunal has blocked Naspers’s plan to buy WeBuyCars. This comes after the Competition Commission moved to prevent the R1.4-billion acquisition of a 60% stake in the company.

Vodacom Group chairman, who has been on the telecommunications operator’s board for the past 11 years, will step down at its AGM on 21 July.

Web cameras on Friday morning displayed images of deserted highways across Gauteng as the first day of a three-week, government-ordered lockdown began to fight the spread of Covid-19.

Attention all South African website owners and operators. Government regulations, published on Thursday, require all websites that end in “.za” to link to the department of health’s Covid-19 portal.

South Africa’s largest online retailer, Takealot.com, will remain open during the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa, but will only be able to supply goods deemed essential by the government to customers.

Icasa will make additional radio frequency spectrum available to operators to ensure networks can cope with increased demand during the lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Social media was abuzz on Wednesday after a media report suggested cellphone companies had agreed to hand over users’ location data to the government for tracking purposes in an effort to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.

Telkom and the Competition Commission have reached an agreement over concerns the regulatory watchdog had over its wholesale IP Connect product.

South Africa’s biggest online shopping site, Takealot.com, hopes to keep operating through the three-week Covid-19 lockdown, which starts on Friday.