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Wi-Fi service provider AlwaysOn is hoping to bring Wi-Fi Internet to a bigger audience by allowing consumers to buy access using cash at Pick n Pay stores. Selected stores are now carrying prepaid data cards from AlwaysOn. Until now, consumers

Durban has become the first city in South Africa to get a multi-site Internet exchange point. Internet exchange points allow Internet service providers to interconnect their networks so that users benefit from faster connections and more

Details about Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S7, appear to have been leaked accidentally by its Indonesian subsidiary five days before the Korean firm was due to announce the product at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

South African venture capital firm Knife Capital has announced the launch of a new, South African Revenue Service-approved section 12J venture capital company, KNF Ventures, dedicated to investing in innovation-driven ventures

MTN is still struggling to restore full service to all its clients, it said on Tuesday. “The intermittent connection issue is still under investigation,” it said in a statement issued at 4.30pm. “MTN’s engineers implemented a solution yesterday evening

MTN warned on Monday that it was experiencing “intermittent connection issues” that were affecting the services of approximately a million voice, SMS and data users throughout South Africa

Cellular service provider GloCell said on Monday that it has acquired Altech Autopage’s Cell C subscriber base for an undisclosed sum. It said the Competition Commission had approved the transaction. The deal comes as MTN and Vodacom

Social media participation around Thursday evening’s state of the nation address by President Jacob Zuma was 35% higher than 2015’s speech, with 345 964 on-topic conversations on the day. This is according to research

Banking group Absa has piloted a new predictive alert service that notifies customers of potential shortfalls in their bank accounts and offers personalised options to help them manage their finances. The idea is that the alerts