Author: Staff Reporter

Vehicle tracking and recovery company Tracker said there has been a spike in vehicle-related crime, even as South Africa remains under lockdown.

Government has amended regulations that prohibited telecommunications operators from porting customers’ numbers and scrapped rules regarding the electronic tracking and tracing of individuals.

The SABC has dismissed a Sunday newspaper report suggesting it’s planning to go back, cap in hand, to government for another bailout.

The impact of the recent sharp decline in the value of the rand is becoming apparent. The iStore said it will sell the new Apple iPhone SE, which retails for $399 in the US, for R9 999.

MTN South Africa said on Wednesday that it has re-opened all of its 410 stores nationwide, but trading hours will remain limited for now.

Icasa has granted the SABC exemption from local content quotas as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown. This frees the public broadcaster to increase the ratio of foreign content it broadcasts on television.

Streaming music giant Spotify Technology has finally launched one of the most requested features to South African users – a discounted family plan allowing family members to get access for R99.99/month.

Remgro-controlled fibre operator Dark Fibre Africa has become the first telecommunications provider in 10 years to be granted an operating licence in Zimbabwe, paving the way for the company to build a network there.

MTN South Africa has finally reached a consent agreement with the Competition Commission over data prices, more than six weeks after rival Vodacom did the same.

Morai Solutions, one of three companies to be awarded temporary access to radio frequency spectrum to deploy television white-spaces networks during the Covid-19 pandemic, has set out its plans.