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Africa has surpassed half a billion unique mobile users, the GSMA, an industry body, said on Tuesday. According to the GSMA’s newly released “The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016” report, the mobile ecosystem added an estimated US$150bn

A telecommunications industry body has called on the South African Revenue Service to stop taxing cellphones as “luxury items”. The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association said on Monday that smartphones

First National Bank clients on Sunday reported being unable to use their bank cards at the point of sale or at ATMs as a major outage hit the financial services institution. Users turned to social media to share their frustration

Absa has launched ChatBanking for Facebook Messenger, which allows clients to conduct their banking in the chat application. Messenger is the second platform that Absa has brought its ChatBanking service to

Banking group Absa has launched MasterCard’s MasterPass smartphone application in South Africa, allowing customers to use their mobile phones to make payments at the point of sale and on the Internet

Communications regulator Icasa took everyone by surprise on Friday when it said it was pushing ahead with an auction to allocate wireless broadband spectrum in the 700MHz, 800MHz and 2,6GHz bands. The auction is likely to attract only big

Had enough of the constant stream of text messages and calls from the Democratic Alliance as the 3 August municipal elections approach? The party has now provided details of how to unsubscribe yourself from its barrage of communication, and insisted that it

Johannesburg will get its first 4DX cinema this spring, Nu Metro said in a statement on Wednesday. 4DX uses motion, vibration, water, wind, lighting, scents and more to provide moviegoers with an immersive experience. It’s the third 4DX theatre

Broadlink, a subsidiary of WBS Holdings, the company recently acquired by Multisource – the company backed by former top bankers Michael Jordaan and Paul Harris — has announced a big national expansion of its network, building new wireless