Author: Staff Reporter

Just days after news emerged that Cell C was pulling the plug on its wholesale fixed-LTE broadband plans, MTN South Africa has stepped into the breach, offering high-capped packages at aggressive price points.

Logicalis Group, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology group Datatec, has acquired two companies in Europe.

Nedbank has partnered with Microsoft to migrate components of its IT infrastructure into the cloud, the financial services company said on Monday.

Shares in JSE-listed technology company Mustek leapt higher on Wednesday after it told shareholders it expects full-year headline earnings per share to be as much as 38% higher than a year ago.

Huawei retained its place as the world’s second largest smartphone maker in the second quarter, behind Samsung Electronics, despite the US government’s crackdown on the Chinese company, which began in May.

China’s Huawei has partnered with government to train 6 000 South African postgraduate ICT students and technology practitioners in 5G and “fourth Industrial Revolution” technologies.

About 7% of telecommunications operators worldwide have already deployed 5G wireless network infrastructure, with the pace of roll-out expected to accelerate rapidly into 2020, according to Gartner.

Technology company What3words, which has mapped the world into a grid made up of 3m x 3m squares, has partnered with medical care specialist ER24 to improve response times in emergencies.

MTN South Africa has shut down 53 base stations on a permanent basis due to “severe damage and vandalism”. Thirty-nine of these towers were in Tshwane and 15 in Johannesburg.

You know legacy circuit-switched voice is living on borrowed time when the granddaddy of the technology in South Africa, Telkom, announces it’s wholeheartedly embracing voice over Internet protocol.