Author: Staff Reporter

SpaceX will launch Zuma into space this week. No, not President Jacob Zuma. The company, headed by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk will fire a secretive payload into low-earth orbit on Wednesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

South African consumers are about to get their first taste of Chinese phone maker OnePlus’s line of smartphones. The company will launch its flagship OnePlus 5 device in South Africa next week. Distribution for the

MTN is facing another potential multibillion-rand headache, just days after being cleared by Nigerian politicians over allegations of illegal repatriation of $14bn. The problem this time is Benin, where the regulator claims MTN

Liquid Telecom, which acquired Neotel earlier this year in a R6.5bn deal, has announced it plans to upgrade its fibre routes in South Africa using the latest 100G technology. The company said at AfricaCom in Cape Town

Two days after Vodacom said it would begin trialling 5G services in South Africa on a limited basis, MTN has also jumped on the bandwagon, saying in a statement on Thursday morning that it has signed a memorandum of understanding

Angola Cables has announced plans for a point of presence in Cape Town, its second in the country after Johannesburg, as the company gets ready to serve the market with the new South Atlantic Cable System

Vodacom and networking equipment supplier Nokia will trial 5G technology in South Africa, the two companies said on Tuesday. Working with Vodacom in a series of workshops and trials, Nokia test how 5G

As news emerged this week on a new submarine cable system that will connect South Africa and Brazil, another major project – the South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs) – is nearing completion. The Sacs cable, a project