Author: Staff Reporter

Telkom’s wholesale arm, Openserve, working with Nokia, has achieved download speeds of 900Mbit/s over a short-haul copper circuit. The speed was achieved as part of tests as Openserve prepares to deploy

The MTN group is getting a new procurement and supply chain chief. Dirk Karl, currently senior vice president of network technology at Deutsche Telekom and Orange procurement joint venture Buyln, will join the Johannesburg

As part of a promotion that begins immediately and expires at the end of August, mobile operator MTN has announced its post-paid customers can make unlimited on-network calls at no additional cost. The move comes as competition in

MTN South Africa said on Thursday that it has completed a major network upgrade in the greater Durban area, which it started 18 months ago, while addressing criticism from some residents of the city about the way

Those who use First National Bank’s transactional banking app for smartphones will no longer use data when accessing services. From 1 July, the data the app uses will be zero-rated across all networks. “We believe that access to data or airtime

New research suggests that the average cost of a data breach in South Africa is a staggering R32m. According to the research, from Ponemon Institute and commissioned by IBM Security, that figure has risen by 12% in the past

Communications regulator Icasa warned on Wednesday that it is considering cancelling four licences issued to telecommunications companies because it has been unable to make contact with them. It said in a statement that it is “considering

Tyrone Soondarjee is set to replace Robert Pasley as chief financial officer of mobile operator Cell C. Soondarjee, who will take over the company’s finance portfolio on 1 July, joins Cell C at a crucial

Vodacom has opened a narrowband Internet of things laboratory at its campus in Midrand. The lab will be used to incubate and then commercialise machine-to-machine and IoT systems using narrowband networking, it said

Disgraced former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng wants to be president of South Africa. According to various media reports on Monday, Motsoeneng, who was dismissed from the