Author: Staff Reporter

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

In the latest episode of South Africa’s top technology podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss Microsoft’s blow-out earnings, all thanks to the cloud. Also this week, they discuss the latest rumours, thanks to

Sony Mobile Communications has launched the Xperia Ear in South Africa. The in-ear personal assistant helps users to communicate via conversational voice interaction and head gestures. The Bluetooth-connected

South Africa’s long-delayed project to migrate from analogue to digital terrestrial television has “failed”. That’s the view of Democratic Alliance MP and shadow minister of telecommunications & postal services Marian Shinn, who said on Tuesday that

Social media app Tinder lets you find interesting people around you to meet, with users often accessing it for dating. A new South African start-up, called Carter, hopes to apply a similar technique to buying a

South African- and New York-listed technology group Net1 UEPS Technologies has acquired a 30% stake in Bank Frick & Co, a family-run bank based in Liechtenstein in Central Europe. Following completion of the transaction – which is still

Naspers-owned Internet video-on-demand service ShowMax should now be much quicker and more responsive in Kenya. This is after the company partnered with Seacom to put caching servers on the ground in the East African nation. The servers are located

In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg take a look at Netflix’s strong financial results – and they ask: has it taken the lead in South Africa from ShowMax? Also, this week, is WeChat

The Gupta family, through its business Oakbay Investments, has blasted finance minister Pravin Gordhan for his court application seeking a declaratory order that he cannot intervene in a decision by South Africa’s big