Author: Staff Reporter

Blockchain technologies, on which cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are based, will take up to 10 years before they have a transformational impact, analyst firm Gartner said on Tuesday.

MTN South Africa has launched embedded Sim technology for postpaid customers. The eSim technology is available on the Samsung Galaxy Watch (42mm variant), it said on Tuesday.

Jack Dorsey, the CEO and co-founder of Twitter, is headed to South Africa as part of a four-nation, month-long tour of the African continent.

Seacom has “lit up” more towns along the N1 route between Johannesburg and Cape Town with fibre broadband options, the telecommunications company said on Thursday.

Telkom has launched new Sim-only mobile data plans for “on-the-go customers” that dramatically undercut the prices charged by its rivals.

New research by Opensignal has found that South Africa scores poorly relative to many other nations when it comes to the quality of voice calls over mobile networks using apps such as WhatsApp.

Telkom has taken the wraps off new Sim-only fixed-LTE broadband plans for both contract and prepaid customers, with prices starting at R59/month for 5GB of data (plus 5GB of “night surfer” data).

Underscoring the importance of social media to South African smartphone users, Telkom has unveiled a series of new “social bundles”, offering access from as little as R1.

Education technology company Snapplify has raised R30-million in “expansion capital” from Knife Capital via its Sars section 12J VC firm KNF Ventures and investment manager Hlayisani Capital’s Hlayisani Growth Fund.

MultiChoice subscribers were left seething on Saturday after its DStv Now streaming service collapsed at the start of the Springboks’ opening match in the 2019 Rugby World Cup.