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Telkom and Cell C offer the best-value contract packages for consumers, Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker shows. The company’s second “Perfect Package Tracker” of 2015 measures the real effects of price and package changes in South Africa’s post-paid
The risk of a total power blackout in South Africa at any point in future is “out of the question”, acting Eskom CEO Brian Molefe said on Wednesday. “The prospect of a blackout is virtually non-existent,” he told reporters in Johannesburg during a briefing on
Smile Communications has outsourced management of its 4G/LTE networks in all its operations in Africa to Ericsson in a five-year agreement that covers Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The value of the deal has
South Africa is part of a small list of countries that have failed to even get out of the starting blocks regarding digital migration, according to an international body. In 2006, South Africa and other countries in Europe, the Middle East and
Vodacom has expressed cautious welcome over one regulator’s approval of its planned bid to buy Neotel. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa earlier this week
A low-cost prosthetic hand, designed in Cape Town and 3D printed in Bloemfontein, is pointing the way to a brighter future for amputees. Award-winning academic and mechanical
Despite South Africa’s missing the deadline to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting by Wednesday, 17 June, South Africans would still be able to watch free-to-air television, the communications ministry said. “Minister of communications
Eskom’s proposed 25% electricity price hike, if approved, will further cripple the already bleeding South African economy, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) said on Tuesday. “The metals and engineering
Africa’s first private satellite will be launched in 2016. But scientists and engineers will not be behind this bold move. Instead, it is being powered by a group of South African high school girls. Pupils from across Cape Town on Youth Day attended the launch of the ambitious
Communications regulator Icasa has decided to approve Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel, but has attached conditions to the deal. That’s the word from Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka, who declined on Monday to say what the conditions are that
