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Neotel will launch a fourth-generation (4G) telecommunications network using long-term evolution (LTE) technology in Gauteng in the third quarter of the year, the company said at a press conference on Wednesday. However, the network will be limited in scope, with only 50 base stations at launch, CEO Sunil Joshi

Worldwide PC shipments will fall by 7,8% in 2013, according to revised research by International Data Corp (IDC). The company had previously forecast a “limited decline” of 1,3% this year, followed by a gradual increase in volume. The new forecast reflects a shift in PC buying

Nissan has entered into a three-year research project with Eskom that will involve testing the Nissan Leaf, the Japanese vehicle manufacturer’s electric car, in South Africa. The project comes as Nissan South Africa prepared to launch the Leaf in South Africa, becoming the first commercially available fully electric

Mobile operator MTN said on Wednesday afternoon it has worked closely with the South African Police Service to arrest an individual suspected of stealing airtime vouchers worth about R5m. Reports elsewhere said incorrectly that the thief, who was apprehended on the West Rand in Gauteng, had stolen

The Press Council of South Africa has “expressed concern” at what it has called the “abuse of its readers’ complaints system” by Dina Pule’s new spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni. On Monday evening, Ngobeni issued a media statement in which he decried the decision of the Press Council not to investigate what he alleges is

Former MTN CEO Phuthuma Nhleko is rejoining the group’s board, this time as its chairman, outgoing chairman Cyril Ramaphosa announced at its annual general meeting on Tuesday. Nhleko, who was appointed as the group’s CEO in 2002 and led a series of acquisitions across Africa and the Middle East that built MTN into a leading

A new Kickstarter project from a team of Kenyans wanting to build a piece of ruggedised communications hardware called BRCK has attracted more than 830 backers since it was launched on 5 May. Ushahidi, the company behind BRCK, had hoped to raise US$125 000. It reached this target on Monday night

MTN expects to sign up its 200 millionth active subscriber before the middle of the year, its CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa, told shareholders at the group’s annual general meeting in Roodepoort on Tuesday. By the end of April, MTN had signed up 197,4m subscribers in the 22 markets in Africa and

The long-awaited review of state-owned entities, released on Tuesday, raises the possibility of collapsing non-viable parastatals but skirts the vexed issue of privatisation. The report provides government with a range of options, including absorbing ailing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) into line-function departments, turning them into

South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0,9% in the first quarter of 2013, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The increase in GDP was lower than the 2,1% achieved in the fourth quarter of 2012. However, when compared to the first quarter of 2012, the GDP increased by 1,9%