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The City of Cape Town has approved the installation of fibre-optic cables in the municipality’s sewerage and storm water pipes. The city said in a statement that fibre specialist Link Africa has been granted permission to proceed with the installation of fibre
Ronald Wayne. Never heard of him, right? Most people haven’t. Yet he one of the triumvirate who co-founded Apple, alongside the two Steves – Jobs and Wozniak. As Apple, today the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, celebrates the 40th
Cell C on Monday released details of its first commercial fibre-to-the-home offerings, and the pricing suggests the telecommunications operator intends being an aggressive player
FNB Life announced on Monday that consumers can now take up funeral plans through nearly 6 700 FNB ATMs and Slimline devices across the country. The insurance distributor and administrator’s CEO, Lee Bromfield, said in a statement that making
A merger of troubled state-owned telecommunications infrastructure company Broadband Infraco and Telkom, in which government holds a 39,8% direct stake, looks increasingly certain, a report published on Monday said. Business Day said Infraco has indicated in
Communications regulator Icasa has conducted spot inspections of the retail outlets of South Africa’s mobile network operators and found that two-thirds of them don’t comply with regulations. According to Icasa, the inspections were conducted in
The following is the full and unedited text of a statement issued by finance minister Pravin Gordhan, in which he explains how he has answered a set of questions from the Hawks regarding the establishment of a so-called “rogue” unit at the South African
PC shipments in Africa and the Middle East fell by 28,7% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2015, the steepest ever recorded in the region for a single quarter, technology research and consulting firm International Data Corp said on Tuesday
Dimension Data sister company, NTT Data, is acquiring the IT services subsidiary of American technology giant Dell for US$3,1bn, or about R48bn at the current exchange rate. Dell is selling Dell Services – the former Perot Systems, which it bought
MTN on Thursday advised shareholders not to make decisions based on press reports after the telecommunications group’s shares were knocked down by more than 10% on speculation that its fine in Nigeria could be hiked to R240bn. The shares were also knocked
