The move from 4G to 5G will be anything but straightforward. Fifth-generation networks will not only host new service types, but require new infrastructure and network design to support them. Are South Africa’s
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By finally publishing regulations on the use of television white spaces, communications regulator Icasa has paved the way for two significant turning points in the country’s roll-out of Internet access to its citizens
While several significant changes to First National Bank’s popular eBucks rewards programme kick in this month, the tightening up of earn rules across all accounts means that rewards are now capped at far stricter levels
On a recent visit to BDO in Norway, it struck me that many South African businesses and organisations are increasingly exposed to cyberthreats and vulnerabilities of which they are blissfully unaware. There is
Blockchain is producing a new world order that will change how we transact for products and services forever. Future technology giants will challenge the status quo by creating new applications that are entirely
Contactless card or “tap-and-go” payments are slowly gaining popularity as more banks and retailers adopt this method of payment. Shoppers with the technology-enabled cards are benefitting from the speed and
In a full-page, paid-for open letter in the Sunday Times, addressed to “the political leaders of South Africa”, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko implored the politicians to have a national conversation about the importance of ICT
Like politics, religion and economics, money is a social construct. Money is no more than a collective system of trust. If you sell a bicycle for R500, you trust that the R500 cash the buyer gives you will be fungible for food or electricity
Between 1999 and 2004, Telkom’s monopoly of access to crucial international bandwidth and high-speed ADSL lines meant the company could freely charge Internet service providers excessive fees. And they did. Inevitably, this
We’re bringing information and devices online at an unprecedented rate, raising one of the fundamental questions of our time: how do we represent ourselves in this digital world that we are creating? And, more importantly