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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

Communications minister Faith Muthambi must embark on a proper legal process to regulate her decision, reached with the SABC, not to require indigent households to have a television licence when applying to receive a free digital TV set-top box

Telkom’s wholesale division, Openserve, has announced it will cut the price of IP Connect, the platform that provides Internet service providers with access to its copper-based broadband ADSL network. The price cut should lead to lower

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has launched a scathing attack on South African media companies and journalists, accusing them of having an agenda against the ruling ANC. She told

By 2020, mobile data traffic will grow nine-fold in South Africa, according to new research. The 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index mobile forecast predicts that mobile data