In 2015, Facebook launched its Free Basics app, offering a limited suite of Internet services for free in partnership with mobile network operators around the world. This provoked widespread debate on whether Free Basics violated
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I noted, with an element of morbid curiosity, the following exchange in the UK’s house of commons two days ago: “The government has not carried out any impact assessments of leaving the EU on the UK economy, Brexit secretary David Davis
The recently published Electronic Communications Amendment Bill proposes that mobile network operators and other vertically integrated telecommunications firms allow Internet…
MultiChoice this week proclaimed its innocence over its hardball negotiations with the SABC for the supply of two channels to DStv, its pay-television platform. It denied there was anything illegal or improper
With bitcoin approaching the $10 000 mark and Coinbase, the bitcoin exchange, boasting more accounts than brokerage Charles Schwab, some preemptive consolation and advice are in order for people who stand to lose lots of money in
Naspers urgently needs to appoint an independent auditor or law firm to get to the bottom of the scandal now threatening to engulf its subsidiary, pay-television operator MultiChoice. If any evidence of malfeasance is found, executives
The public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, can no longer ignore the Democratic Alliance’s request for a probe into the procurement process of the government-sponsored set-top-boxes – a key component of the broadcast digital
Father of capitalism Adam Smith once called money “one of the three great inventions, along with the written word and mathematics”. Money has helped business grow more efficiently, enabled markets to expand
The conflict between national treasury and the department of telecommunications & postal services over a national spectrum auction in the 2.6GHz band must be resolved – and quickly. At the
I have been following the recent media attention around your banking problems with some interest. What a dilemma you find yourself in! Banks won’t bank with you even when you own shares in them and own certain politicians