There is widespread acknowledgement that Africa has a long road to travel before it can use the power of technology to improve the lives of people. Broadband coverage outside urban and peri-urban areas is still woefully inadequate
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It would be a major strategic error to privatise Eskom in any way, the South African Community Party said on Sunday. In a statement, after the conclusion of the party’s three-day central committee
South Africans could be saved from load shedding this winter, if acting Eskom CEO Brian Molefe gets his way. Speaking at the launch of the Transnet Development Hub on Friday, Molefe said planned maintenance was mostly completed and so the utility
The street outside MTN’s plush head office near Roodepoort in Johannesburg resembled a war zone on Friday as striking workers burnt tyres and barricaded the entrance amid claims that police had used teargas and fired rubber bullets. A driver
Korea’s LG Electronics is charging ahead with an aggressive marketing campaign to improve market share of its brand. The company launched its G4 in SA on Thursday. The smartphone takes direct
In a development reminiscent of a move by an aggrieved Cell C customer last year, who erected a giant billboard against the mobile operator, an incensed Vodacom client has erected three banners after experiencing problems with his cellular signal
Vodacom has apologised to a complainant in Fochville who put up banners slamming the mobile operator’s signal in the area. The disgruntled Vodacom customer, who doesn’t want to be named, said in a phone interview on Friday afternoon that the
Blue Bulls fans will soon be able to tweet from the game or share photos on Facebook without worrying about the cellular network overload so common at full sports stadiums. Vodacom has a deployed a “high-density” Wi-Fi network
New pay-television licensee Siyaya TV has rubbished claims by SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng that the public broadcaster has secured the rights to broadcast Bafana Bafana soccer
MTN has rubbished talk that any of the company’s clients have been disconnected by disgruntled workers, describing such suggestions as a “classic disinformation campaign”. Reports of alleged disconnections started surfacing early on Thursday