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The value of debit card fraud losses decreased by 42% between January and September this year compared to the same period last year, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) said on Monday. It fell from R204m to R117,7m over the two years, it said in a statement
Telkom’s underlying operational earnings remained under pressure despite an increase, the telecommunications giant reported on Monday. “The group’s financial performance indicates a challenging industry environment,” CEO Sipho Maseko said in a statement. The increase in earnings
Telkom has poached Enzo Scarcella from Vodacom to head up marketing. Scarcella, who was responsible to rebranding Vodacom from its traditional blue and green to the red of parent Vodafone, will assume the role of Telkom chief marketing officer at the end of January 2014
The City of Tshwane in Pretoria has launched a website offering an automated wayleave system for telecommunications operators wanting to lay fibre-optic infrastructure in the city. A wayleave is permission to use someone else’s property to deploy infrastructure
The iPhone 5s and 5c, the latest iPhone models from Apple, went on sale in South Africa on Friday, with prices starting at R8 499 for the 16GB version of the iPhone 5c at the iStore, the retail chain operated by Apple distributor Core Group. The phones are also available on contract through
UK company Intelligent Energy believes it has come up with a technology – based on hydrogen fuel cells – that will allow millions of people across Africa with no access to electricity or an unreliable supply of power to keep their mobile phones charged. The company used
Afrihost, which earlier this year introduced aggressively priced mobile broadband offerings in partnership with network operator MTN, has effectively cut the price of mobile data in half until the end of February next year. The move appears to be a reaction to MWeb’s
Weekend newspaper circulation fell by almost 7,5% in the past year, according to an Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) report released on Wednesday. Combined circulation fell from 2,34m copies from July to September last year
Datatec has named Gary Bullard as the new CEO of subsidiary Logicalis Group following the retirement of Ian Cook, who has been appointed as nonexecutive chairman. According to Datatec, Bullard has 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry. In his most recent
Internet service provider MWeb has taken Telkom to court, demanding that a 6c/minute “transit” charge for calls carried from the telecommunications operator’s fixed-line network and onto its mobile network is in breach of an interconnection agreement signed between the parties
