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MTN has provided more details about its plans to zero-rate its FrontRow video-on-demand offering. The decision means it won’t charge users of its mobile network for the data they consume while watching

The SABC has paid its bosses R42,6m in golden handshakes in the past six years, communications minister Faith Muthambi has revealed in answers to parliamentary questions posed by the Democratic Alliance. Former CEO Dali Mpofu was the biggest beneficiary

Eskom’s prepaid vending systems were experiencing technical problems on Thursday, the utility said. “Eskom prepaid customers may have been experiencing a slow, intermittent, or offline service when buying prepaid electricity,” Eskom said in a statement

PCCW Global, the international operating division of Hong Kong telecommunications operator HKT, has become the latest video-on-demand operator to launch services in South Africa and is promising the first “a la carte VOD” offering in the country. The service, called

Facebook is now used by a quarter of all South Africans, while photo-sharing app Instagram – owned by Facebook — has seen the fastest growth of any social network in South Africa over the past year. This is according to a new study by World Wide Worx

The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa, the body responsible for issuing tenders for the manufacturing of up to 5m government-subsidised digital television set-top boxes, has lashed out at Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn for “casting aspersions” on one of

Despite the fact that it is now a large technology services company that employs 10 000 people, JSE-listed EOH continues to grow as if it’s still a young business. For the year ended 31 July 2015, it has reported a 29% improvement in headline earnings per share and hiked its dividend by

The Altech Node will soon be no more. TechCentral has established that Altron is going to pull the plug on the service after failing to sell the business to a third party. Altron subsidiary Altech launched the Node to great fanfare in 2014

MTN said on Tuesday that it has earmarked R1,2bn for network upgrades in KwaZulu-Natal, including the operator’s first fibre-to-the-home deployment in the densely populated coastal province

Telkom has announced it will launch fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband in 25 additional areas by the end of the month. It claims to have the largest “open access” home fibre network in the country, with FTTH coming to additional suburbs in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban