Author: Staff Reporter

The number of pay-television subscribers in Africa will reach 30m by 2021, almost double 2015’s 16m, according to new research. Data published by Dataxis suggests digital satellite pay-TV subscribers will

Telecommunications company Seacom, which operates an undersea cable system along Africa’s east coast, has signed a deal with Microsoft to allow its customers to connect directly via dedicated Ethernet links to

Communications regulator Icasa has reached an agreement with striking employees, in the process ending a six-week-long strike. The strike, which affected a number of services offered by Icasa – including the

YeboYethu, Vodacom South Africa’s black economic empowerment scheme created in 2008, began trading on the empowerment segment in the telecommunications sector of the JSE’s main board on Thursday. YeboYethu

Eskom has placed a safety officer at the Koeberg nuclear power station north of Cape Town on precautionary suspension after a drone crashed on the site in contravention of nuclear safety regulations. Eskom said in a media statement on Wednesday that

MTN Group has, with the help of “external assistance”, begun a “deep and fundamental strategic review” of its operations and processes to ensure it is operating “far more optimally given the pressure on voice

The BBC has launched its iPlayer radio app in South Africa and markets around the world, allowing users to tune into the British public broadcaster’s wide range of radio stations streaming on the Internet. Available in

Telkom has promised to seek maximum criminal prosecution against “saboteurs” who cut backbone fibre-optic infrastructure in Limpopo yesterday, affecting the services of thousands of fixed-line and mobile users in

BrandsEye, the South African company that accurately predicted Britons would vote to leave the European Union by monitoring conversations on social media, now forecasts that South Africa’s election on Wednesday

Telkom has announced it will provide free Wi-Fi Internet access at a thousand polling stations around the country on election day, 3 August. The telecommunications operator said it is providing