Author: Staff Reporter

Eskom on Thursday introduced stage-one rotational load shedding, saying it would be in effect from midday to 10pm.

Fifth-generation mobile technology will attract 1.5 billion subscriptions in the next six years, with 5G networks expected to cover more than 40% of the world’s population by December 2024.

Liquid Telecom said on Thursday that it will work with the Western Cape government to increase the number of free public Wi-Fi hotspots from 178 to 1 600.

A new report by Cisco predicts that more traffic will flow across the Internet in the next five years than in the history of the global interconnected network.

First National Bank said on Tuesday that it is launching the ability to tap for transactions at its ATMs.

Telkom has become the first mobile operator in South Africa to implement fully communications regulator Icasa’s end-user subscriber service charter, which governs data expiry.

South Africa’s largest online retailer, Naspers-owned Takealot, has so far been able to mostly withstand the strain of the Black Friday sale, though it had some early issues with a third-party payment gateway.

Smartphone device sales in South Africa rose by 16% in the third quarter of 2018 as the consumer technology market showed resilience, despite the economy entering a technical recession.

South African start-up Jini Guru has launched a smartphone app and QR card to allow users to make micropayments electronically, to a car guard for example, without the need to carry cash.

Uber rival Taxify said on Tuesday that it has expanded its South African operations to include the coastal towns of Plettenberg Bay, George, Knysna and Mossel Bay.