Author: Staff Reporter

Lagos-listed MTN Nigeria Communications shed five million mobile subscribers in the first three months of the year as it struggled with customer churn and restrictions on Sim card sales and activations.

MultiChoice Group, continuing its strategy of cooperating with competitors, on Friday said it has added YouTube to its high-end DStv Explora Ultra personal video recorder decoder.

South African Apple fans can expect to pay at least R26 000 for Apple’s new M1-powered iMacs, while the new iPad Pro line-up will start at R14 000 and rise rapidly from there.

Absa has joined several other banks, including Capitec and FNB, in launching the ability for clients to use its banking app to make payments using QR codes.

JSE-listed technology group Altron said on Wednesday that its headline earnings per share will fall by as much as 29% because of the disposal of its Bytes UK arm and weak trading conditions.

Nedbank, working with Mastercard and South African fintech player Ukheshe, has launched the ability for banking clients to make payments to businesses in messaging platform WhatsApp.

MTN South Africa has taken the axe to prepaid data prices, reducing the cost of 10GB of data (including another 10GB for use at certain times of the night) to R149.

Showmax, the video streaming platform launched by MultiChoice Group, has cut the price of its mobile-only plan to R39/month, from R49 previously.

MTN Group will list its Rwandan subsidiary on the Rwanda Stock Exchange on 4 May, the JSE-listed telecommunications giant said on Monday.

A 24Tbit/s submarine telecommunications system connecting South Africa to the islands of Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius has gone live and is carrying Internet traffic between the countries.