Author: Staff Reporter

Seacom has upgraded its submarine cable system that connects South Africa and East Africa to Europe. The upgrade has added 500Gbit/s of capacity, taking the total capacity on the route to 1.5Tbit/s. The cable was last

JSE-listed technology group Altron has acquired Microsoft partner iS Partners in a deal worth R225m. The acquisition is subject to Competition Commission approval. Altron CEO Mteto Nyati said the deal gives

Vodacom Group has announced a planned R17.5bn black economic empowerment deal with Royal Bafokeng Holdings, Thebe Investment Corporation and existing BEE shareholder YeboYethu that will take its BEE ownership to about

Mobile operator Cell C has gone to court to seek an urgent interdict against Icasa, saying the communications regulator has not given it sufficient time to implement new data expiry rules. The rules, known as the

Shipments of personal computing devices – desktops, notebooks, workstations and tablets – in Africa and the Middle East declined by 5.3% year on year in the first quarter of 2018, according to new research from

The South African Reserve Bank, through its fintech unit, has successfully demonstrated a real-world trial of a distributed ledger technology-based wholesale payment system. The Bank has released a report on Project

Johannesburg-headquartered Dimension Data and its subsidiary Merchants have acquired 100% of Canadian business process outsourcing specialist Millennium 1 Solutions for an undisclosed sum. Millennium provides

About 32% of software installed on computers in South Africa is not “properly licensed”, a one percentage point decline compared to 2016, according to a new survey by BSA The Software Alliance. Commercial value of unlicensed

South African bought 3.2m smartphones in the first quarter of 2018, a 12.4% increase year on year, according to data released by market research firm GfK on Tuesday. The value of the smartphone segment increased by

Telkom has launched a new 150MB FreeMe bundle, offering consumers 150MB of data, 50 SMSes and 150 minutes of on-network calling for R29. Launched as part of the company’s new prepaid campaigned