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Internet ride-hailing service Uber has begun mapping Johannesburg, using specially equipped vehicles to gather imagery and other information aimed at improving its core product. In 2016, Uber started putting mapping cars on the road in Mexico, Canada
The SABC has been handed yet another legal defeat over efforts to defend its former chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng. The high court in the Western Cape on Tuesday dismissed the SABC’s appeal against an earlier judgment
South Africa’s third biggest mobile operator, Cell C, has been downgraded after missing an interest payment, S&P Global Ratings has said in a statement. The rating agency downgraded Cell C to “D”. According to the company’s website
Networks currently interconnecting through Internet exchanges can now use their peering ports to make virtual private network interconnects to other networks, at no cost, INX-ZA, which operates the exchanges, said
South African Internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth’s HBD Venture Capital has sold its stake in South African 3D Doppler ball-tracking sports radar specialist FlightScope to management on what
EOH has announced it plans to acquire 100% of the long-established Cornastone group of companies, subject to regulatory approvals. The black-led Cornastone has been in business for more than
MTN is boosting its economic interest in mobile phone tower operator IHS Group from 15% to 29%, the JSE-listed telecommunications group told shareholders on Wednesday. In a statement on the JSE’s stock exchange
The average price for voice and data paid by Vodacom customers in South Africa fell by 17,6% and 15,4% in the past year, the telecommunications group said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The declines happened because “significantly more
Vodacom added 1,6m active customers in the fourth quarter of 2016, taking its total to 65,2m, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Wednesday. In its latest quarterly filing, for the three months ended 31
Communications regulator Icasa has signalled its intention to review the contentious call termination regulations of 2014, raising the possibility of fresh legal action by the industry. In the past two reviews, Icasa has reduced
