Author: Staff Reporter

Government accesses the call records of more than 70 000 phone numbers in South Africa per year, according to the Right2Know Campaign, citing statistics from Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom. “These numbers show that, at

By way of an apology, Vodacom is giving customers affected by the “glitch” that hit its systems this week 500MB of free data. The mobile operator said on Twitter on Wednesday that it will give customers the free data

The Wits Business School has appointed Prof Brian Armstrong, the former group chief commercial officer of Telkom, to head up the WBS/Telkom Chair in Digital Business, established in 2016. Telkom agreed last year to

Vodacom is automatically refunding customers with airtime and data bundles after a glitch on Monday night caused many prepaid and top-up customers to lose data. By late on Tuesday morning, most affected affected

More than 87% of all smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2017 shipped with Google’s Android operating system, with Apple’s iOS – the operating system used on iPhones – the only other platform to feature, with 12.1% market share

MultiChoice has announced it will rename its DStv Extra bouquet of satellite television channels. Effective immediately, the bouquet will be known as DStv Compact Plus. The plan costs R489/month, and is placed between the

Kuben Pillay is the new chairman of Cell C, while Larry Nestadt will serve as his deputy, the mobile operator said on Monday. The appointments follow the recapitalisation of Cell C and the purchase by

Controversial Gupta-aligned businessman Mzwanele Manyi is buying the Gupta-owned ANN7 and The New Age for R450m, it was revealed on Monday. A Manyi-owned company called Lodidox is buying Infinity Media

Showmax and Vast Networks, the open-access Wi-Fi provider owned by Dimension Data and Naspers, have reached an agreement to provide zero-rated access to the streaming content provider’s shows and movies for

The Internet Service Providers’ Association, an industry body that represents many of South Africa’s ISPs, believes regulatory intervention is needed to force operators to open their networks to resellers. That this hasn’t happened