Author: Staff Reporter

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.

Jaguar said on Thursday it will roll out a network of 82 new public charging stations for electric vehicles in South Africa at a cost of R30-million. They will be able to charge most electric vehicles sold in the country.

Vodacom has extended its lead at the top of OpenSignal’s latest awards table, winning six out of seven categories and scoring highly in regional speed and latency categories.

South Africans will spend more than R45-billion online in 2018, with over 60% of buyers making a purchase from an overseas retailer, new research by Ipsos, for PayPal, has revealed.