A media alert sent out by parliament on 14 January about a meeting to discuss possible regulation of over-the-top (OTT) services like WhatsApp was unauthorised, according to an MP. Last week, parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications
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A recent piece by Rick Rowden in Foreign Policy suggests that Africa’s boom is over. He couldn’t be more wrong. Rowden argues in his article that due to the collapsing commodity prices and
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It comes as a shock to many when they realise that the apps and content on their computers and mobile devices are not their property to do with as they wish. This mostly becomes an issue when someone dies and the relatives try and get access to apps, accounts and content
Applications have closed for a new accelerator programme for financial technology start-ups based in Cape Town and backed by Barclays Africa and US accelerator Techstars, with nearly 400 companies from around the world applying to take part
MTN and Vodacom have declared war on consumer interests. The infamous duopoly wants to limit how we use Internet services like WhatsApp — and it has nothing to do with fairness, competition or the future of South Africa. To the contrary, it is all about maintaining
MTN’s Nigerian operation is likely to report a profit after tax of approximately R15,9bn for the year ended 31 December 2015, it was revealed on Tuesday. The JSE-listed telecommunications operator, which is facing a R65,2bn fine from Nigerian authorities for failing to disconnect 5m
The collapse in the value of the rand against major currencies in the past couple of months has prompted Apple to increase the price of both apps and in-app purchases in the South African version of the App Store
The uptake of fibre to the home in Johannesburg is proof that the days of 4Mbit/s ADSL connections are numbered. Telkom, which had rolled out fibre to 38 000 households by August last year, has committed to raising that number to 500 000 by December 2016 and to a million homes by
Anyone who measures the success of a company by the sheer number of innovations that have been copied by competitors can only conclude that the Lumia series, once owned by Nokia and currently in the hands of Microsoft, has been an enormous hit. For instance, the