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First National Bank is pulling the plug on its Connect VoIP voice-over-Internet protocol product, effective 13 November 2016. In a note to customers, FNB said it has made the decision

Introducing mandatory open-access wireless networks as part of government policy, as South Africa is planning to do, may come at the expense of investment and innovation, according to new report. Research ICT Africa said in a new policy brief that

Government’s national integrated ICT policy white paper is “monopolistic on a fundamental level”, is unconstitutional in parts and “entrenches ministerial intervention over critical components” of the ICT sector. This is the warning from the Democratic Alliance

MTN South Africa has named Adcorp subsidiary Rightsource as the preferred partner to manage its outsourced call centres. The move, which has been met with union resistance, will see MTN adopt a “hybrid” call centre model in

Are South Africans really paying too much for mobile data? Tariffic, a South African company that helps companies and individuals save on their cellphone bills, has set out to determine exactly that by looking at the price

The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, along with the new Apple Watch Series 2, will go on sale in South Africa on 14 October. iStore, owned by Apple distributor Core Group, revealed on Friday morning that the devices will go on sale locally

The SABC’s 2016 accounts are splashed in red ink. The public broadcaster revealed on Thursday that it reported a R411m net loss for the financial year. The loss is a worsening of the broadcaster’s performance

The high court in Pretoria will hand down judgment at 10am on Friday in the application brought by telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele against Icasa over the communications regulator’s plan to auction off

It’s the end of an era. BlackBerry, the once-dominant maker of devices that kept business executives glued to their e-mail, will no longer develop its own phones. The company said in notes alongside its second quarter

As the festive season fast approaches, Cell C is looking to capitalise on consumers’ cellular spending plans by offering them cash – up to R10 000 – to switch to the company’s high-end contract packages