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MTN has been ordered by a Johannesburg court to allow customers to keep their phone numbers when leaving for South African telecommunications competitors. The policy of Africa’s biggest wireless operator by sales to

South Africa’s economy avoided a second recession in seven years as mining and factory output rebounded. GDP rose an annualised 3,3% in the second quarter, compared with a 1,2% contraction the previous three months, the statistics office said in a report released

Troubled technology and industrial group Altron said on Monday that it expects to return to profitability for the six months ended 31 August 2016 as a restructuring starts to bear early fruit. It said in a trading statement that it expects to report

Vodacom doesn’t have the spectrum it needs to launch next-generation 4G+ broadband services nationwide, but the unique nature of the Gautrain tunnel system has allowed it to launch the technology on a limited scale in Gauteng. As a result of the deployment, Vodacom

JSE-listed telecommunications company Huge Group has reached an agreement to acquire ConnectNet Broadband Wireless and its wholly owned subsidiary, tier-one Internet service provider Sainet, for at least R275m, pending

The department of telecommunications & postal services has established a “war room” to fast-track the roll-out of broadband in the country. “Government has identified information and communications technology and broadband

Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has come to the defence of government’s upcoming policy on allocating so-called “high-demand spectrum” for 4G/LTE wireless

Pan-African telecommunications operator, Seacom, which is best known for building an undersea fibre cable along Africa’s east coast seven years ago, has gone live with a point of presence in Slough, about 30km west

A simple tag pioneered in South Africa could soon be used to curb the spread of tuberculosis in Africa. In efforts to better understand how the disease is spread, IBM engineer Toby Kurien and research