Media group Caxton and two public broadcasting advocacy groups, SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa, are challenging a 2013 deal between MultiChoice and the SABC that appears to have led to the latter abandoning its support of
A fire is menacing two of the country’s biggest data centre operators. Teraco and Hetzner on Thursday confirmed that the building in which their Cape Town data centres is housed was on fire on Thursday. “We are in contact with the fire department
MultiChoice-owned Internet service provider MWeb on Monday unveiled its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) prices, which will be available to consumers who have access to Telkom’s nascent home fibre network. The announcement comes on top of MWeb’s plans to work
The small microchips known as “subscriber identity modules” or Sim cards that are required for mobile phones to log on to a phone network will soon be 25 years old. While mobile phones and network technology have progressed in leaps and bounds, Sim cards are still
Data is a major growth area for MTN Group, with low smartphone penetration, low data consumption per subscriber and the lack of fixed data services all contributing to a “very large data opportunity” in Africa. This is according to Aslam Dalvi, Investment Analyst
MTN South Africa showed “clear evidence” of a “successful turnaround” in the second half of 2014, the mobile operator said on Wednesday, despite the operation reporting a 3,9% decline in revenue and a sharp decline in operating margins. For the year
The developing world will drive future growth of new smartphone connections, research released by industry body the GSMA at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in Spain this week showed. And it’s cheap, entry-level devices that will drive that uptake. So
MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has echoed remarks made by Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub earlier this week that there’s a need for mobile operators to cooperate to reduce costs and improve
The Film and Publication Board (FPB) has presented new draft regulations governing online content, which are meant, among other things, to crack down on child pornography and cyber bullying. But
Samsung lost the number one spot in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2014, displaced at the top of the pile by Apple, according to new data from Gartner. It’s the first time Samsung has dropped out of the top spot in smartphone sales volumes
