Author: Staff Reporter

eMedia Investments, the company that produces the 24-hour news channel eNCA for MultiChoice’s DStv, has announced it will launch a second news channel, called OpenNews, which will be available exclusively

China Telecom Global, a subsidiary of China Telecom, one of world’s largest telecommunications operators, will establish two network points of presence in South Africa, one in Cape Town and the other in

MTN and technology partner Huawei have launched what they are calling Africa’s first field trial of 5G mobile broadband. The field trial demonstrated a 5G fixed-wireless access use case with Huawei’s 5G 28GHz

Bytes UK, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology group Altron, has secured a contract with the UK’s National Health Service worth £150m (R2.5bn). The £30m/year, five-year deal saw Bytes UK take the tender in

Niel Schoeman is stepping down as CEO of fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel with immediate effect. He’s not leaving the company, however, and will take on the role of executive chairman. In a

Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, who was controversially fired from the position by former President Jacob Zuma, will join MTN Group as a nonexecutive director on 1 June, the Johannesburg-headquartered

Operational profit margins at MTN South Africa have shown good improvement in the first quarter of 2018, the emerging-markets telecommunications group said on Thursday. In the three months to 31 March 2018, the South

South African consumers are increasingly shunning linear television broadcasting in favour of subscription video-on-demand alternatives such as Netflix and Showmax, according to new research. Data from GfK’s annual

MTN South Africa has launched a range of new, lower-cost social media data bundles designed specifically to work with apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Twitter. The plans, which start from R1/day, give customers

Newly listed South African technology group 4Sight Holdings has acquired professional services firm AccTech Systems and its subsidiary Dynamic Africa Services for R120m and R30m respectively. The acquisition follows