Author: Staff Reporter

Telkom is moving aggressively to get its copper-based broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) users onto its new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in the areas where it’s already deployed fibre infrastructure. On Monday, the company launched an offer to

Former MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia has joined listed telecommunications provider Huge Group as an independent nonexecutive director with immediate effect. Huge Group said on Friday that Bulbulia, who was most

Durban-headquartered technology services group Adapt IT expects headline earnings per share (Heps) to rise by as much as 47,4% in the six months ended 31 December 2015, it said in a statement on the JSE’s stock exchange news service on Thursday. The fast-growing

Well-known ICT sector businessman Andile Ngcaba has warned that South Africa’s mobile networks “risk redundancy” if they fail to develop innovative ways to benefit from over-the-top technologies. Ngcaba, speaking in his capacity as chairman of the Wi-Fi Forum

Rand Merchant Bank Holdings (RMBH) and Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings have launched a new hub for “next-generation financial services entrepreneurs” in Sandton. Called

The Internet Service Providers’ Association says South Africa’s mobile operators need to develop new ways of partnering and competing with “over-the-top” services such as Skype and WhatsApp instead of trying to have them regulated. In a statement

African mobile and Internet television pioneer iRoko on Monday announced it has concluded multiple deals worth a combined US$19m (about R312m) to secure new content and raise additional funding. The Lagos, Nigeria-headquartered

Technology-powered South African start-up SweepSouth, which provides online, on-demand home cleaning services, has secured R10m in new venture capital funding, it said on Monday. The funding comes from the Vumela Fund, as well

Thumbing a nose at its competitors in the raging debate over “over the top” (OTT) services, mobile operator Cell C has announced it will provide free WhatsApp calling to some of its customers. However, the offer is limited in that it will only be available

Multiple cable faults on Thursday, one in the UK and two in Egypt, which affected the services of two major subsea cable systems that connect South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to the global Internet, left millions of mobile and fixed-line Internet users