Author: Staff Reporter

Long-serving MetroFibre Networx CEO Steve Booysen will step down from the fibre-to-the-home operator at the end of May.

Sony has revealed the South African launch date and pricing for PlayStation Plus, its rival to Microsoft’s popular Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

Showmax, the streaming video service in the MultiChoice Group stable, has introduced a new “max data saving” mode that uses only 50MB of data per hour.

Telkom has appointed Sung Hyuck Yoon, a former CEO and president of Samsung Africa, to its board as a non-executive director.

Walt Disney Co Africa has reached an agreement to distribute Disney+, its Internet streaming service, on MultiChoice Group’s DStv set-top boxes.

After a week of debilitating rolling blackouts imposed by Eskom, President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to bring an end to load shedding.

The current debilitating bout of crippling load shedding will end at 10pm on Friday evening, Eskom said, even as the utility warned that the systems remains “severely constrained”.

Google’s giant new submarine cable, Equiano, which will connect South Africa and Europe along Africa’s west coast, has been brought ashore in Nigeria.

New research shows South Africans actively dislike telecoms operators, with the industry ranked last in net customer sentiment, below banking, insurance and retail.

Eskom will later on Wednesday reduce to stage 3 the current bout of severe load shedding that is crippling South Africa’s economy.