Author: Duncan McLeod

Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said every South African learner will get a free, government-supplied e-mail address, with the project to kick off later this year.

MultiChoice Group, seeking to end the practice of password sharing on its DStv streaming service, has begun enforcing a new rule that limits streaming to one device at a time.

MTN South Africa is aiming to reach 25% coverage of South Africa’s population with next-generation 5G services by the end of the year, and 60% by 2025.

Vodacom and MTN were by far the biggest spenders in South Africa’s spectrum auction, agreeing to cough up more than R5-billion each for prime access.

African Rainbow Capital Investments plans to offload its remaining stake in fibre network operator MetroFibre Networks.

Altron has sold its Xerox agency, Altron Document Solutions (ADS), to Xerotech, a subsidiary of Bi-Africa Investment Holdings.

Rain is participating actively in communications regulator Icasa’s auction of broadband spectrum and expects its business to be a big beneficiary of the process.

Blue Label Telecoms has unveiled long-awaited details of a planned recapitalisation of Cell C – a move aimed at dealing once and for all with the mobile operator’s crippling debt problem.

Investors punished Chinese shares again on Tuesday, inflicting further collateral damage on South Africa’s Naspers and its European-listed spinoff, Prosus.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms has been referred by the Competition Commission for prosecution for alleged “abuse of dominance”.