Angola Cables’ South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs), a new, high-speed submarine telecommunications cable connecting Africa and South America, has been launched commercially.
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Seacom has acquired 100% of KwaZulu-Natal Internet service provider SAI for an undisclosed sum as it moves to expand its Seacom Business service in the province.
Standard Bank Group has withdrawn a cautionary announcement to shareholders related to demands placed on it by Nigeria’s central bank over the alleged illegal repatriation of $8.1-billion in funds by MTN Group.
Business-focused Internet service provider BitCo has announced it will start offering services to home users from next month.
The company behind a plan to build a submarine cable connecting South Africa with South America has partnered with Telecom Italia’s Sparkle unit to expand its reach on the Seabras-1 cable to the US.
MTN South Africa is pulling the plug on its popular zero-rated Twitter offering, saying it is no longer feasible to offer the service without charging for data use.
Communications regulator Icasa is moving out of its offices in Pin Mill Farm in Sandton to a new facility in Pretoria.
A day after announcing a plan to unbundle pay-television unit MultiChoice, Naspers’s online classifieds business OLX has made a R1.4-billion investment in specialised car-buying service Webuycars.
Microsoft plans to hike Azure cloud computing service pricing in South Africa by a massive 23.1% next month following a sharp fall in the value of the rand.
MTN South Africa has launched voice over LTE, also known as VoLTE, to customers with certain supported devices. Previously, calls were only carried on the operator’s 2G and 3G infrastructure.