The SABC board has asked communications minister Faith Muthambi to appoint former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng as its acting COO until December. The board resolved that he be appointed acting
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MPs could the take the debate on allegedly high South African mobile data prices one step further than just a portfolio committee hearing. Parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications
South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Thursday that the Bank’s monetary policy committee has decided to leave the interest rate unchanged. This means the repo rate, which is the interest rate at which
Yahoo said the personal information of at least 500m users was stolen in an attack on its accounts in 2014, exposing half of its roughly 1bn users ahead of Verizon Communications’ planned acquisition of the Web portal’s assets
Providing Internet access in South Africa will generate R68,5bn in revenue for service providers by 2020, up from R39,4bn in 2015, according to a new research report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC’s Entertainment and
Afrihost has launched a new promotion that is sure to get tongues wagging. It is offering consumers of 250MB/month of data for R1. Seeking to capitalise on the #DataMustFall movement
Faster networks, better phones and consumers’ own habits have all led to users’ perceptions that their data is “disappearing”, a Vodacom executive has told parliament. The portfolio committee on telecommunications
MTN has decreased voice and data tariffs by 58% and 73% respectively in the past five years, despite an increase in costs due to a struggling economy, the company has told parliament. The portfolio committee on telecommunications
Apple, ramping up efforts to disrupt the transportation industry, is seeking a stake in luxury car maker McLaren and is in talks to buy Lit Motors, an electric motorbike start-up, people with knowledge of the matter
MTN officials have told parliament that the release of available spectrum would, in theory, lower data costs. South Africa has yet to migrate to digital broadcasts, a key requirement for opening up radio