Netflix rival Iflix, a video streaming service that focuses on emerging markets in Africa and elsewhere, has secured US$133m (about R1.8bn) in new funding in a round led by US media giant Hearst. The company
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Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom have all responded to communications regulator Icasa’s plan to force networks to change the way they expire users’ data, saying they will work with the regulator as it goes
Communications regulator Icasa has published draft regulations that, if implemented in final form, will prevent telecommunications operators from expiring users’ data for up to 24 months. The regulations could have a huge impact
Blue Label Telecoms said on Monday that it has wrapped up its acquisition of 45% of Cell C for R5.5bn, concluding a restructuring deal that has resulted in the mobile operator’s debt being reduced from R23bn to less than R6bn
Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has reiterated her commitment to see all South Africans migrating from analogue to digital television by December 2018. “I have full appreciation of the impact that
Carrier-neutral data centre operator Teraco will complete its giant new data centre, Riverfields in Bredell on Johannesburg’s East Rand, by the end of the year. The facility will be the largest data centre in Africa, and
The portfolio committee on higher education & training has called for a thorough probe into reports alleging massive corruption running into millions at one of the entities over which it conducts oversight. According
New research by Tariffic, the company that analyses South African cellular tariffs to help companies and individuals reduce their mobile bills, shows that MTN and Cell C offer the best handset subsidies, while consumers are likely
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has attracted competing interest from MTN Group and Vodacom Group for the African operations the former Japanese monopoly acquired with the takeover of Dimension Data
Apple is planning to release a version of its smartwatch later this year that can connect directly to cellular networks, a move designed to reduce the device’s reliance on the iPhone, people familiar with the