Author: Staff Reporter

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

The collapse in the value of the rand against major currencies in the past couple of months has prompted Apple to increase the price of both apps and in-app purchases in the South African version of the App Store

Metrofibre Networx has won a contract to install fibre broadband in the Beaulieu, Heathcliff and Blue Hills estates north of Johannesburg. It has been named the preferred high-speed fibre and data services supplier for the area

MTN’s market capitalisation is in danger of falling below that of rival Vodacom as investors continue to fret about the unprecedented fine the group is facing in Nigeria and uncertainty about its operational performance in that market and in South Africa

Naspers-owned video-on-demand platform ShowMax has reached a deal with Internet service provider MWeb in terms of which users will get three months of “free” ADSL along with three months of complimentary access to ShowMax. The offer is

Worldwide PC shipments fell by 8,3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the preliminary results of new Gartner research. For the year, shipments fell by 8% to 288,7m units