Eskom was scheduled to implement stage-2 load shedding from 10pm on Tuesday, despite many industries being closed for the year-end holidays and the tightened lockdown restrictions.
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Communications regulator Icasa will challenge a court application by Telkom seeking to halt the auction of high-demand spectrum licences seen as a key pillar of attracting new investment.
Telkom has filed papers in the high court in Pretoria seeking an interdict to stop communications regulator Icasa from proceeding, for now, with the spectrum licensing process.
Nigeria’s demand that all of MTN’s 75 million subscribers be registered with national ID numbers in two weeks might seem like the authorities are gunning for it once again. It’s more nuanced than that.
MTN South Africa has launched MoMo International Airtime, which allows users to purchase airtime for recipients in other countries.
MTN is in a race against time to get about half its subscribers to comply with the Nigerian government’s stipulation that their Sims be connected to their ID numbers by the end of the year.
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has rolled out a beta version of its desktop app that features voice and video calls for the first time.
Vodacom parent Vodafone has reached an agreement with AST SpaceMobile to launch the first phase of a space-based commercial mobile communications service in 2023, with Africa to benefit first.
Fresh from the successful listing of its former subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group, in the UK, could Altron look at an unbundling of Netstar next as it seeks to unlock further value for shareholders?
Altron on Thursday successfully listed its former subsidiary Bytes Technology Group on the main board of the London Stock Exchange, with a secondary listing on the JSE.