Mobile services have had an important and positive impact on developing countries where they are the main means of connecting to the Internet. However, mobile services have capacity constraints.
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While the US-China trade war rages on, the tensions are exposing growing rifts between China and Silicon Valley.
André de Ruyter, the next CEO of embattled Eskom, has experience trying to turn around struggling companies.
In the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts.
On paper at least, an acquisition of Cell C by Telkom makes sense. But Cell C is arguably in worse shape today than it was two years ago when Telkom tried and failed. By Hilton Tarrant.
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Perhaps you think the atomic bomb is responsible for more deaths than any other weapon. The Kalashnikov assault rifle, commonly known as the AK-47, has killed far more.