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MTN South Africa has appointed Benjamin Marais as its new chief information officer, effective 1 March 2016. Marais, who joins MTN from Discovery Health, where he served in a similar role, replaces Neil Tomkinson, who is moving into a role at group level
Civil rights body the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has voiced what it terms its disgust at the mandatory tariff hikes announced by roads agency Sanral in recent government gazette notices
Details have emerged of how MTN intends honouring its promise to reimburse customers affected by network service outages between Sunday and Tuesday this week. The company said in
Fibre-to-the-home start-up Vumatel has revealed plans to offer free, uncapped fibre broadband to 80 schools in its coverage areas this year at speeds of 1Gbit/s. The company has challenged other
Consumer price inflation has breached the upper limit of the South African Reserve Bank’s target range by accelerating to 6,2% year on year in January 2016. The consensus forecast for headline CPI, which includes the volatile food and
Expect load shedding 20 hours every day if South Africa doesn’t build 20GW of new power stations within a decade, a nuclear energy proponent warned on Tuesday. “If we don’t come up with a strategy to build 20GW of coal or 20GW of
Telkom and Broadband Infraco are in talks over “possible collaboration” as government moves to minimise duplication between state-owned enterprises. Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele said
Wi-Fi service provider AlwaysOn is hoping to bring Wi-Fi Internet to a bigger audience by allowing consumers to buy access using cash at Pick n Pay stores. Selected stores are now carrying prepaid data cards from AlwaysOn. Until now, consumers
MTN plans to compensate some of its one million customers who were hit by a network outage this week. The telecommunications operator said on Monday that it was experiencing connectivity issues that affected approximately one million voice
Digital payments business PayPal this week said it expects South Africans to spend more than R37bn online in 2016 as a high penetration of smartphones and cross-border shopping drive online spending. Mobile phones and tablets are expected
