Vodacom claims to have become the first telecommunications operator in South Africa to achieve a speed test, across a mobile network, of more than 500Mbit/s. It achieved the speed using LTE-Advanced technology, also
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The bitcoin market is “over-inflated” and “very frothy”, despite big risks looming on the horizon, South African Internet entrepreneur – and cybercurrency expert – Vinny Lingham warned on Tuesday. Lingham, who has been dubbed by some media
The venture capital community in South Africa is too risk averse and doesn’t understand the start-up model, particularly when it comes to high-growth start-ups. That’s the view of San Francisco-based South African Internet
Blue Label Telecoms is pushing ahead with a plan to recapitalise Cell C in terms of which it will become a 45% shareholder, through subsidiary The Prepaid Company, in South Africa’s third largest mobile operator. The JSE-listed company said
The new .africa geographic top-level domain has attracted almost a thousand registrations by trademark owners, placing it in the top 10 worldwide for the number of domain name reservations during the sunrise phase of the launch process
Rectron, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology group Mustek, has acquired a majority shareholding in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software development company Palladium. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed
MTN’s Turkcell headache just won’t go away. The JSE-listed telecommunications group is headed to court after a legal challenge from the Turkish operator, this time in Johannesburg, over the awarding of its operating licence in
Tencent, in which South Africa’s Naspers holds a one-third stake, might want to tighten the purse strings a little. More than US$19bn in deals over the past year have added some pretty cool
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub took home a total of R21,4m in the 2017 financial year, the group revealed in its annual report, published on Thursday. That’s a small decline on the R21,8m he was paid in 2016. Joosub’s 2017 package
Vodacom Group has appointed Jabu Moleketi, a former South African deputy finance minister, as its new chairman, replacing Peter Moyo, who is leaving after the annual general meeting on 18 July to take up the role of CEO of Old