Nashua Mobile has extended its flat-rate data products, Xtreme Data and Xtreme Data Premium, to some Android-powered Samsung Electronics smartphones after earlier introducing the plans on certain Nokia handsets earlier this year. The
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Eskom has asked for a 16% increase in electricity prices each year for the next five years, the parastatal said on Monday. This would more than double the price of electricity from 61c/kWh in 2012/13 to 128c/kWh in 2017/18. Eskom has submitted its application
Democratic Alliance MP and communications spokesman Marian Shinn wants communications minister Dina Pule to lay criminal charges against the “official or officials” who authorised the withdrawal of R4,7m to pay a tax bill. According to Shinn, the
Eskom is concerned about its one notch downgrading by rating agency Standard & Poor’s, the power utility said on Wednesday. “Although Eskom’s credit rating remains investment grade, with the support of government, the recent downgrades by Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s are
Eskom’s application for new electricity increases should reflect its costs and be transparent, the Energy Intensive Users’ Group (EIUG) said on Monday. “Currently, tension exists with affordability of electricity to customers at one end, and the need for cost-reflective pricing that supports a viable
Computicket has been accused of using its market power to bully a developmental theatre company that works with schools. The dispute between theatre company Minimax and the SA State Theatre in Pretoria is about the exclusive contract Computicket signed with the latter in August 2011. By forcing
The long-running row between MTN Swaziland and the country’s telecommunications operator has grown into what’s been dubbed a “constitutional crisis”. This follows a vote of no confidence in the cabinet by members of parliament. MTN Swaziland, whose shareholders are widely
Auditor-general Terence Nombembe gave roads agency Sanral’s books the thumbs-up recently, although it is struggling against losses of more than R2bn because of financing costs on its tolling operations, thanks largely to the delay in e-tolling to pay for the Gauteng freeway improvement project
MTN Group has reached an agreement to sell as many as 931 base stations in Cote d’Ivoire and 827 base stations in Cameroon to IHS Holding Limited for US$141m and $143m respectively, for a total transaction of $284m (R2,4bn). Under the deal, HIS will be the 100% shareholder of the tower companies to be set up in
TopTV’s acting CEO, Eddie Mbalo, looked relaxed for someone who had been in the hot seat for eight months. He was thrust into the spotlight when the pay-TV broadcaster’s founding chief, Vino Govender, left in February. The broadcaster maintains the separation was amicable, but it is clear