Africa has surpassed half a billion unique mobile users, the GSMA, an industry body, said on Tuesday. According to the GSMA’s newly released “The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016” report, the mobile ecosystem added an estimated US$150bn
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Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele will institute legal proceedings against communications regulator Icasa to stop the agency from going ahead with a plan to allocate access to radio frequency spectrum for
The JSE has played down an error that incorrectly represented foreign sellers of equities as net buyers of R98,1bn of local stocks. The JSE said that instead of foreigners investing a net R98,1bn in
Telecommunications provider BitCo has launched microwave connectivity in the last mile using licensed spectrum at 2GHz, it said on Monday.…
First National Bank has warned that connectivity problems — which started at the weekend — are expected to stretch into Monday. On Sunday, FNB customers turned to social media to complain that cards weren’t working at
A record run of recorded inflows into South African stocks were the result of a programming error, with foreign investors in fact selling more shares than they bought over the period, the country’s stock exchange said. Rather than spending
A telecommunications industry body has called on the South African Revenue Service to stop taxing cellphones as “luxury items”. The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association said on Monday that smartphones
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg stepped down after six and a half years at the helm of the Swedish telephone equipment maker, a period marked by a falling stock price, intense competition and investigations into the company’s business
Hacktivist group Anonymous Africa says it has inspired others to launch cyber attacks for political purposes in South Africa and across the region. Anonymous is a loose global network of hackers who launch attacks on
Computer programmers who work for digital advertising agencies earn, on average, 26% less than their counterparts in the ICT sector, according to a survey. Non-profit organisation, the Interactive Advertising Bureau of South Africa