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Personal financial management service 22seven is ditching its monthly subscription fee. Effective 1 September, the company, which was acquired by Old Mutual in January 2013, is offering its services completely free of charge

Mobile network operator MTN and trade union Solidarity would meet over the company’s plans to retrench managerial staff in South Africa, Solidarity said on Friday. “This comes after the mobile network operator initially failed to duly

E-tolling is the only effective funding model to improve Gauteng’s road infrastructure, Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) said on Thursday. “The only pragmatic way of retaining funding for the Gauteng freeway was through

MTN South Africa has conducted a trial of what it’s describing as the “fastest and most intelligent” optical network, offering the company speeds on its fibre backbone of up to 2,4Tbit/s using wavelength-division multiplexing

Telkom’s chairman, Jabu Mabuza, has used the telecommunications operator’s annual general meeting to defend the board’s handling of the suspension and exit of its former chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte. Schindehütte retired from the

Speculation has again surfaced that a deal between Dimension Data and MWeb is on the cards, eight months after TechCentral first reported on apparent preliminary discussions between the two companies. The speculation then went cold. This time around, though, the focus appears

Communications regulator Icasa has published new regulations on digital terrestrial television. The regulations, published in the Government Gazette, are meant to promote diversity and competition in digital TV and set out how spectrum

BMW South Africa and Schneider Electric have announced a partnership for the supply and installation of charging points for BMW’s electric vehicles, which will go on sale locally early next year. Schneider will work with BMW electric car

Listed computer assembler and technology distributor Mustek has hiked its dividend per share by 40% to 28c on the back of a strong improvement in headline earnings per share and revenue. For the year ended 30 June 2014

Waspa, the association that represents and self-regulates South Africa’s wireless content and applications industry, has overhauled its code of conduct in an effort to simplify and to ensure it’s in line with the Consumer Protection Act and the