It’s a case of second time lucky for Telkom and Business Connexion (BCX). The Competition Commission announced on Thursday that it has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the
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Minister of public enterprises Lynne Brown ruled out the privatisation of basic services — such as the provision of electricity and water — and said load shedding will continue for three more years. Until the “end state” of Eskom is clarified
An unidentified hacker group has made most of the South African Press Association’s archives publicly available and searchable for free, violating the copyright of new owner Sekunjalo Investment Holdings. The group says
Eskom’s “big data” scientists are changing the way its decision makers operate, with mechanisms starting to predict when and where technical faults occur, delegates at the African Utility Week in Cape Town heard on Thursday. Speaking about the
The leafy Johannesburg suburbs of Saxonwold and Parkwood are next in line to get fibre to the home (FTTH) from telecommunications start-up Vumatel, it was announced on Thursday. The Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents
CNN has developed an online tool to measure how your salary stacks up against the global average as well as where you place in your own country. The media company developed the application to draw attention to the World Economic Forum
MTN Business is launching a pan-African “Internet of things” (IoT) platform to provide advanced management features for connected devices and Sim cards and allow for networked devices to exchange information and perform actions. The platform
The Gauteng department of education has rubbished reports that suggest the provincial government’s plan to distribute tablets into classrooms to improve education has come to an end with the recall of up to 88 000 tablets. Reports published
Cell C has declared war on Vodacom and MTN, taking direct aim at its bigger rivals with an offer to buy out their post-paid subscribers from their contracts up to the value of R10 000. The operator
Cell C’s CEO Jose Dos Santos says an initiative to give customers up to R10 000 to help buy themselves out of contracts with other networks could last longer than just four months. The mobile