The FF Plus has invited people who have unresolved billing and administrative problems with cellphone company MTN to come forward so it can ask parliament and the National Consumer Commission for help. FF Plus parliamentary spokesman on communications Anton Alberts said
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The theft of batteries from base stations around South Africa has become a significant problem for mobile operators, costing them into the hundreds of thousands of rand every time criminals break into a site. But operators have started fighting back with the
A total of 5,94m tax returns were received for non-provisional taxpayers, says South African Revenue Service (Sars) acting commissioner Jonas Makwakwa. The announcement follows the tax season coming to an end on Friday. The 5,94m submissions received were
Absa has partnered with MTN to allow subscribers to the telecommunications network operator to have zero-rated data access to the banking group’s Internet banking facilities. MTN clients will get zero-rated (free) access via Absa’s smartphone banking
Amazon is ready to deliver packages to customers using drones. And it’s getting Jeremy Clarkson to tell you – and the regulators who need to approve the technology – all about it. Clarkson, a former co-host of the hit BBC motoring show Top Gear (he was fired for punching a producer), signed a
South African telecommunications operator Telkom hopes to get a mention in Guinness World Records as part of an attempt to break the current record for longest marathon of watching movies, which currently stands at 120 hours and 23 minutes (about five days). The movies
President Jacob Zuma and his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, are set to meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss the US$5,2bn fine imposed by Nigerian authorities on South African telecommunications group MTN’s subsidiary in the West African nation, it was reported on Sunday
First National Bank has apologised for inconveniencing some of its clients on Saturday. “We apologise to any of our customers who weren’t able to make purchases using their FNB cards a short while ago. This problem has now been resolved,” tweeted the bank
Neotel’s chief financial officer, Steven Whiley, has resigned. Whiley was suspended from the telecommunications operator in July, along with CEO Sunil Joshi, over allegations of bribery related to a multibillion-rand contract at Transnet. In a tersely worded statement on Friday, Neotel said
Online businesses helped spur on a 24% year-on-year revenue growth at Internet and media giant Naspers. In its interim results announcement on Friday, Naspers reported that its revenue measured on an economic interest base topped R74,3bn for the six months ended September 2015