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There is an agreement on the table between MTN and striking workers, the Communication Workers Union said on Wednesday. “There is a settlement agreement in principle with MTN,” general secretary

Concerns are again being raised over Telkom’s decision to switch management of its field-services fleet of vehicles from Debis Fleet Management to Bidvest after the latter was not able to procure

Trade union Solidarity is turning to the courts to fight impending retrenchments at telecommunications operator Telkom. In a statement on Wednesday, the union said it will approach the labour

In a world where the smartphone is becoming ever more dominant, the app store is becoming key to success for an e-commerce business, according to Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk. In 2014, the

Vodacom’s share price shot up by more than 4% on Wednesday morning. The strong performance followed news on Tuesday evening that the Competition Commission has decided to recommend the approval of

Telkom is cutting the cost of data on its fibre-to-the-home and copper digital subscriber line (DSL) infrastructure, with the price of some data bundles falling by 15%. The company’s new “Do Bundle”

On Wednesday morning at 2am South African time, something chronologically peculiar took place: there was an extra second between 01:59:59 and 02:00:00. This makes 1 July 2015 (or 30 June 2015

The government has sold its 13,91% stake in Vodacom to the Public Investment Corporation to help fund the R23bn allocation to Eskom, national treasury said in a statement on Wednesday. The national

Regulators’ approval of Vodacom’s R7bn bid to buy fixed-line business Neotel should worry Telkom, said an analyst. On Tuesday, the Competition Commission gave Vodacom the green light to buy Neotel for

More than a year after Vodacom made an all-cash, R7bn offer to buy Neotel, the Competition Commission has recommended that the deal be approved – but has also imposed a number of stringent conditions, including a