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Standard Bank has taken the wraps off Standard Bank Mobile, its new virtual mobile network operator, which will piggyback off the Cell C network.
While Vodacom and MTN appear to be allergic to mobile virtual network operators, Cell C is proving it’s possible to build a significant business from them.
Free-to-air satellite broadcaster OpenView is fast closing in on 1.5 million active set-top boxes, growing its customer base by 42% in the past 12 months.
Smartphone device sales in South Africa rose by 16% in the third quarter of 2018 as the consumer technology market showed resilience, despite the economy entering a technical recession.
Reunert lifted revenue by 7% in the 2018 financial year to R10.49-billion, buoyed by improvements in the JSE-listed group’s ICT and applied electronics segments.
The finances of Eskom, Transnet and other companies owned by South Africa’s government have deteriorated to such an extent that they now pose a significant risk to the nation’s finances, the auditor-general said.
Foxconn Technology Group, the biggest assembler of Apple iPhones, aims to cut $2.9-billion from expenses in 2019 as it faces “a very difficult and competitive year”, according to an internal company memo.
Struggling power utility Eskom has extended its load shedding regime from four stages that allow up to 4GW of demand to be shed, or cut, to eight stages providing for up to 8GW to be shed.
President Cyril Ramaphosa may create a super ministry for economic policy as part of an overhaul of the nation’s executive, according to three people familiar with the matter.