Author: Staff Reporter

MTN Group said on Wednesday that it has become the first mobile operator in the world to deploy and test an “open optical packet transport platform” known as Voyager, after joining the Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project earlier

Cell C has withdrawn a planned bond placement to help it reduce its high levels of debt, but the company remains confident it will raise sufficient funds through a planned restructuring to reduce its maximum

The Venter family-controlled Altron group has made further progress in disposing of non-core assets, announcing on Tuesday the planned sale by subsidiary Powertech Industries of Powertech Battery Group to Trinitas Fund for R300m in cash

Telecommunications group MTN has a new chief financial officer. Ralph Mupita, the CEO of Old Mutual emerging markets, will take over as MTN’s CFO on 3 April 2017. Mupita’s appointment adds to a growing list of top executives

The SABC has followed free-to-air rival e.tv in asking communications regulator Icasa to allow it to stop broadcasting a news bulletin in prime time, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. The move follows

A group of South African entrepreneurs has launched a venture capital (VC) company that will invest in early-stage start-ups and nurture them through each phase of their growth cycle with the aim of eventually readying them to

Telkom’s share price jumped by almost 6% on Thursday after the partially state-owned telecommunications group said it expects normalised headline earnings per share for the six months to 3 September 2016 to increase

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has announced an open data portal for local government budget information, providing citizens with access to comparable, verified information on the financial performance of each municipality

DStv parent, pay-television operator MultiChoice, has announced it is cutting the price of ShowMax for subscribers to its most expensive bouquet. DStv Premium customers with an Explora personal

South Africa’s office workers spend nearly an hour a day working on their mobile devices despite having access to more powerful computers, according to a new research report. The results of the survey, which polled