Author: Staff Reporter

Telkom will terminate fixed-line copper services for prepaid customers with effect from midnight on 31 July 2019. The next step will involve ending copper-based post-paid services, including DSL.

Shoprite Group is launching standalone technology stores called K’nect that will offer consumers access to services such as global money transfers, cellphone purchases, bill payments, tickets and insurance.

Blue Label Telecoms’ Blue Label Ventures has invested in technology start-up Mobii Systems, which provides rugby match analysis to teams and coaches to help them plan their game strategies.

There has been an alarming rise in incidents of battery theft from cellphone towers in South Africa and urgent action is needed to address the situation, MTN said on Monday.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has appointed President Ntuli as its new MD for South Africa, effective 1 August, it said on Monday.

Communications regulator Icasa has issued an invitation to apply for a tender to help it value high-demand spectrum bands ahead of a planned assignment of the valuable radio frequencies.

Naspers said on Thursday that it’s leading a new investment round, worth $30-million, in Polish-founded peer-to-peer learning community Brainly. Other investors are Runa Capital and Manta Ray.

The ransomware attack that has crippled City Power’s IT systems holds valuable lessons for companies about disaster management and backup, a Swiss-based software specialist has said.

Microsoft’s cloud-orientated productivity suite, Office 365, is now being delivered locally through the software giant’s new South African data centres.

South Africans have yet another electronic ride-hailing option available to them with the launch of a homegrown e-hailing app called Taxi Live Africa.