One of MTN’s very first employees, Karel Pienaar, who has been with the telecommunications group for more than two decades and who was instrumental in the founding of the business, is stepping down. Pienaar was most recently group
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Tapping e-commerce, ramping up banking services and regaining trust are key reasons why banker Mark Barnes was hired as the South African Post Office CEO. This is according to the minister of telecommunications & postal services Siyabonga Cwele, who
The unusual look of Amazon’s delivery drone combines elements of both fixed-wing aircraft, such as traditional passenger aeroplanes, and rotocraft such as helicopters, in a design that looks like neither. But despite its unusual looks, the boxy drone has been designed
The Nigerian Communications Commission has decided to reduce the fine imposed on MTN by 35%, the telecommunications group said on Thursday. The size of the fine remains by far the largest fine ever imposed on a telecoms
WeChat Africa has announced plans to invest R50m in technology start-ups in Africa “to support local entrepreneurs and technology innovations”. WeChat, which is developed by Tencent
Chinese fibre-optic cable manufacturer Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company has announced plans to establish a telecommunications fibre cable manufacturing facility at the Dube TradePort
Video-on-demand platform FrontRow, launched earlier this by MTN in partnership with Discover Digital, has been rebranded as VU, effective 1 December, and has cut its prices to match the competition. As with FrontRow before it, MTN subscribers’ data will be zero-rated (provided free) when they stream
Telkom has dramatically expanded its uncapped 4G/LTE offer to 520 base stations, taking the product, which offers unmetered wireless broadband from R599/month, to seven provinces outside Gauteng. It has also upped the number of neighbourhoods in Gauteng that can get the deal
Financial services company Discovery is giving away Apple Watches – but at an exercising cost. The company, which sells health insurance services, announced on Tuesday that it will fund Apple Watch devices in full for Vitality Active Rewards members, if they meet all their weekly fitness goals for 24 months
Altron has named Andrew Holden as the successor to Rob Abraham at its subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group. The long-serving Abraham will step down as Bytes CEO on 29 February 2016, with Holden to step in as operations executive for information technology. In recent