The money MTN paid its top executive management team, including its former CEO Sifiso Dabengwa, jumped to R165,6m in the 2015 financial year. That’s an increase of 18,8% over the R139,4m it paid in 2014, driven higher by three golden
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Cell C has become the latest mobile operator in South Africa after Telkom to launch commercial LTE-Advanced services. It said it has switched on LTE-A at sites in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town using paired spectrum at both 1,8GHz and 2,1GHz
Eskom’s board has approved a new fleet renewal strategy based on the economic viability of a station as opposed to a purely age-based decommissioning of power stations.Eskom said on Monday that to ensure reliable supply of electricity and no
Growing trade between Africa and Asia has prompted talk of a new subsea broadband cable along Africa’s eastern coastline, says Hong Kong ICT firm PCCW. Last week, PCCW said it along with Telkom, MTN Saudi Telecom Company and
Imagine downloading 5 000 movies per second over your Internet connection. Those are the ultimate speeds being promised by a new, multibillion-rand submarine cable system that is to be built to connect South Africa and East Africa to Asia and
Local telecommunications companies could regret spending around R1bn each on a new African broadband cable if the project goes ahead, says an expert. On Monday, Hong Kong ICT firm PCCW said Telkom, MTN, Saudi
Former Democratic Alliance MP Dene Smuts has died, the party’s federal executive said on Friday morning. “Dene Smuts will be remembered as a truly great parliamentarian, who stood unswervingly for a cause far bigger than her own personal advancement
South African-headquartered technology services group Dimension Data and US-based computer networking giant Cisco have announced a technology initiative that they hope will have a dramatic
Romeo Kumalo, the former head of Vodacom’s international operations, is part of a black economic empowerment group bidding to acquire a stake in the mobile operator from the Public Investment
Award-winning palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, who announced the discovery of Homo naledi last year, has been named in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Berger who, works out of the Evolutionary Studies