Author: Staff Reporter

As growth rates in providing basic Internet connectivity come under pressure, service providers must tap into fast-expanding niches in order to continue to grow their businesses. That’s the view of

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will deliver the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 17 July, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the University of Pretoria announced on Tuesday. Gates, 60, who co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will

MVN-X, the company that enables niche mobile providers such as MRP Mobile and Boksel, has signed a deal with AlwaysOn to allow users to roam seamlessly across to 2 500 Wi-Fi hotspots around the country. MVN-X has helped launched a

Naspers-owned Internet television provider ShowMax on Friday said that it is expanding to 36 additional countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ShowMax was launched in South Africa in August 2015

The opposition Democratic Alliance has raised concerns about a meeting taking place this weekend in Durban between officials of the South African and Chinese governments on Internet issues

MTN Group has appointed Babak Fouladi as group executive for technology and information systems. Fouladi will lead the delivery of MTN’s network and IT strategy across

Popular mobile instant messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, has finally launched native desktop versions of its application for Windows and Mac. “Today we’re introducing a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch

First National Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, FNB Connect, has announced it is zero-rating its customers’ WhatsApp data traffic. It’s the second operator in South Africa, after Cell C, to introduce zero-rated WhatsApp. All data

Vodacom South Africa has announced it is pulling the plug on its struggling mobile payments platform M-Pesa. Despite the enormous success of M-Pesa in markets such

Telkom is expected to take a big hit to earnings as the result of staff reduction costs, with headline earnings per share set to fall by between 40% and 50% for the year ended 31 March 2016. Basic earnings per share are expected to