A single mother should not have to worry about having enough funds to pay for e-tolls at the end of the month, on top of everything else. This was one of the arguments that the
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Parliament’s discussions about regulating over-the-top services kicked off on Tuesday with an expert saying that networks fear becoming pure infrastructure players. OTT services such
Rand Merchant Bank Holdings (RMBH) and Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings have launched a new hub for “next-generation financial services entrepreneurs” in Sandton. Called
GroTech, a fund with an appetite for high growth, disruptive technology companies, is betting on the fact that Goliaths just aren’t that good at innovating. It would rather back the Davids that can do it
The Internet Service Providers’ Association says South Africa’s mobile operators need to develop new ways of partnering and competing with “over-the-top” services such as Skype and WhatsApp instead of trying to have them regulated. In a statement
South African start-up ReWare, which has been launched by the same team that brought Spain’s Zwipit to South Africa, is helping bring older-generation high-end phones, including Apple iPhones
Technology-powered South African start-up SweepSouth, which provides online, on-demand home cleaning services, has secured R10m in new venture capital funding, it said on Monday. The funding comes from the Vumela Fund, as well
A court in Nigeria has given MTN and the Nigerian Communications Commission two months to try to settle a dispute over a record-setting US$3,9bn fine imposed on the telecommunications operator by the commission. The development has raised hopes that
Thumbing a nose at its competitors in the raging debate over “over the top” (OTT) services, mobile operator Cell C has announced it will provide free WhatsApp calling to some of its customers. However, the offer is limited in that it will only be available
Multiple cable faults on Thursday, one in the UK and two in Egypt, which affected the services of two major subsea cable systems that connect South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to the global Internet, left millions of mobile and fixed-line Internet users