Author: Staff Reporter

Communications regulator Icasa “failed in its statutory obligation” to promote competition in South Africa’s telecommunications industry when it approved the transfer of Neotel’s operating and spectrum licences to Vodacom, Cell C CEO

R731,88. That’s how much, including VAT, you’re going to have to fork out to get your hands on the credit card-sized computer, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, which has gone on sale in South Africa. Developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Raspberry Pi 3

Vendor-neutral data centre operator Teraco has begun construction of a major expansion to its data centre in Isando, east of Johannesburg, in a move the company says will create the largest such facility in Africa. The new build, comprising

JSE- and Nasdaq-listed technology company Net1 UEPS Technologies on Friday issued a statement to shareholders saying its long-serving chairman and CEO, Serge Belamant, was duped into thinking he had a PhD. In a statement issued on the

Trade union Solidarity on Friday said a further 300 jobs are on the line at Telkom as the company continues with a cost-cutting programme that involves reducing the size of the organisation’s employee base. The union said in a statement

Naspers has announced it is investing a further US$250m (about R3,9bn) in Indian online travel venture ibibo Group. The investment will be focused on extending ibibo’s leadership position in the Indian hotels category and on additional

MTN’s share price leapt higher in intraday trading on Wednesday after announcing it had made a 50bn naira (US$250m; R3,8bn) payment to Nigerian authorities and withdrawn legal action in the federal high court in Nigeria. MTN’s shares jump to a

Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn, who is also the party’s spokeswoman on telecommunications & postal services, has labelled the budget allocated to South Africa’s broadband roll-out plan, dubbed SA Connect, as “grossly inadequate”. “R1,6 billion over

Less than a month after announcing that former MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia would join its board of directors in a nonexecutive capacity, Huge Group has said that well-known investment

Blue Label Telecoms, the JSE-listed company in talks to buy a 35% stake in mobile operator Cell C for R4bn, has turned in a strong set of results for the six months to 30 November 2015. Headline earnings rose by 25% to R355m on the back of a