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Could this be the future of the mobile Internet? A Polish mobile virtual network operator, InMobile, is offering free bandwidth to its customers, provided they first watch advertising to pay

A fault on a cable operated by one of Seacom’s transmission partners means some of SA Internet service providers who buy international connectivity on the East African cable system

JSE-listed IT multinational Datatec is keeping the corporate action simmering. Just a day after saying it would conclude a new empowerment deal at its local distribution business

JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec has sold 26% of its SA distribution business, Westcon SA, to the Mineworkers Investment Company for R28m.

Internet service provider MWeb is working with broadcaster MultiChoice on the option of launching a bundle of uncapped broadband, pay TV, and possibly even voice telephony to SA consumers

MultiChoice added more than 360 000 new subscribers in SA in the six months to 30 September, handily beating its new rival On Digital Media, which launched TopTV in May

Cell C is “going for Telkom’s jugular with its new rates” and is no longer playing in the same field as SA’s other mobile operators, says an analyst. Less than a month ago it

Blue Label Telecoms will take legal action to recover an unspecified amount of damages it says it has suffered after losing an exclusive contract with Telkom’s failed Nigerian operation, Multi-Links.

Shanduka Group, controlled by leading black businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, has acquired a vast economic interest in the telecommunications group.