Author: Staff Reporter

Open-access fibre telecommunications infrastructure provider DFA (Dark Fibre Africa) has acquired a “significant minority stake” in fibre-to-the-home specialist SA Digital Villages for an undisclosed sum. The transaction will see

Fibre broadband infrastructure provider Metrofibre Networx has reached an agreement with Link Africa that will see it replace all of the links for its core network with its own fibre over the next two years. Until now, the company has leased the fibre links for its core

Troubled technology group Altron has signed a binding agreement to dispose of its long-held subsidiary Aberdare Group for R1,2bn in cash. Altron subsidiary Powertech, which owns Aberdare, has entered into binding agreements to sell Hengtong Optic

MultiChoice has announced that is has added 22 channels to its DStv Now streaming service, bringing the total number of live channels to 46 and stepping up the rivalry with sister company ShowMax. DStv Now can be accessed online

Have you already had just about all the Jacob Zuma news you can handle for 2016? Are you fed up with reading about the president’s foibles? Well, a new Web browser extension for the popular Google Chrome is here to help. The extension, developed by

South Africa’s most-used social network, Facebook, will this weekend remind South African users to register to vote – the last chance they’ll have to do so before the local government elections on 3 August. It’s the first-ever voter registration campaign that

The former chairman of communications regulator Icasa, Paris Mashile, has been reappointed to the authority’s decision-making council with immediate effect. News of Mashile’s return to Icasa comes as the authority names four new councillors

Some 200 Uber drivers have picketed Uber’s Cape Town office after the company said it was cutting prices on its entry-level UberX service by up to 20% to spur demand in the winter months, it has been reported. Eyewitness News said the

Internet-based ride-sharing service Uber is cutting prices for its entry-level UberX service in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban by up to 20% to spur demand in the winter months, the company said on Wednesday. “During the winter months, riders tend to venture

South Africa’s municipal elections will take place on 3 August, President Jacob Zuma announced on Wednesday. The move gives political parties a little less than four months to campaign