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First National Bank is in final talks with UK-based mPowa, a rival to American firm Square, about using the payments company’s technology to give its clients the ability to accept card payments using mobile phones. mPowa offers a white-label solution that supports multiple
Telkom may have broken JSE listing rules when it did not notify its shareholders that two of its directors would retire from the board this month, according to Monday’s Business Report newspaper. The two, Jackie Huntley and Julia Hope, would be retiring after Telkom’s annual general meeting on 24 October
The first step towards unbundling Telkom’s local loop of copper cables into homes and businesses, is meant to happen in November. But given the terms agreed between the fixed-line operator and the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), it’s not clear whether this deadline will be met. With
Discovery Vitality, the rewards programme owned by Discovery Holdings, has signed a deal with SA’s third mobile operator, Cell C, that will see the two companies launching VitalityMobile, allowing Vitality members to call one another for free if both are using Cell C’s network. VitalityMobile will cost
Vodacom is considering whether or not it should conclude another black economic empowerment deal, says newly appointed group CEO Shameel Joosub. However, no decisions are imminent. Joosub says Vodacom wants “harmonisation” between requirements set out in the Electronic Communications Act
Vodacom has revealed that it will launch its fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband network in Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria later this year. These are the same cities where MTN said earlier this week it would launch 4G. Like MTN, Vodacom
Telkom said on Friday it would extend its limited trial of 20Mbit/s and 40Mbit/s fixed-line broadband to Internet service providers (ISPs) other than its own TelkomInternet. The expanded scope of the trial won’t only benefit consumers and ISPs, but is good for the operator itself because of the nature
The stretch of land around the confluence of the M1, N1 and N3 highways at Buccleuch, north of Johannesburg, is turning into something of a corporate information and communications technology hub. Just months after mobile operator Cell C
Telkom has agreed to allow rival Internet service providers to participate in trials to test its speedier broadband fixed-line network. This followed criticism from the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body, in which it suggested that the operator’s decision to restrict the tests to its own
Following the ANC’s fourth national policy conference in June, the ruling party has released a recommendations document, the communications section of which has failed to tackle many of the important issues that that were supposed to be on the agenda for discussion. One eye-catching suggestion the party
