The department of telecommunications & postal services has started to accelerate the rationalisation of state-owned entities to save money. Minster Siyabonga Cwele on Tuesday said that the programme to rationalise
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First National Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, FNB Connect, has announced it is zero-rating its customers’ WhatsApp data traffic. It’s the second operator in South Africa, after Cell C, to introduce zero-rated WhatsApp. All data
The funds that invest money with the Public Investment Corp (PIC) lost more than R100bn when President Jacob Zuma fired former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December 2015, said Daniel Matjila, CEO of the organisation
Moody’s Investors Service has affirmed Eskom’s credit rating with a negative outlook, following the affirmation of the country’s sovereign credit rating. The power utility was placed on review for a potential downgrade
The private sector has set aside R1,5bn to help small and medium enterprises survive the tough economic climate. The announcement was made CEO of Discovery Adrian Gore during a briefing at the Union Buildings where government, labour
Starting next month, doctors and nurses in remote areas of Rwanda will be able to order blood and emergency medicine via a text message. Part of a new breed, designed to save lives, the drone will fly to the clinic using GPS
Vodacom South Africa has announced it is pulling the plug on its struggling mobile payments platform M-Pesa. Despite the enormous success of M-Pesa in markets such
Telkom is expected to take a big hit to earnings as the result of staff reduction costs, with headline earnings per share set to fall by between 40% and 50% for the year ended 31 March 2016. Basic earnings per share are expected to
Communications minister Faith Muthambi must embark on a proper legal process to regulate her decision, reached with the SABC, not to require indigent households to have a television licence when applying to receive a free digital TV set-top box
Telkom’s wholesale division, Openserve, has announced it will cut the price of IP Connect, the platform that provides Internet service providers with access to its copper-based broadband ADSL network. The price cut should lead to lower