Telkom says Icasa’s equity rules go beyond the B-BBEE Act and may have deterred network investment.
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The internet is roasting Nvidia Jensen Huang over his affair with Alice Huang using generative AI.
Four import-export licences are out, but the electricity regulator’s import and export rules are not.
He will be the distributor’s third CEO since mid-2025, after Emile Burger left in July following just 14 months in charge.
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Eskom will increase the level of load shedding for Monday and Tuesday because it lost more generation capacity over the weekend.
Eskom burned through more than 5.7 billion litres of diesel and kerosene in the past decade as it fought in vain to keep the lights on South Africa.
Elon Musk put his $44-billion deal for Twitter “temporarily on hold” on Friday while he awaits data on the proportion of its fake accounts, sending the shares in the social media platform plunging.
South Africa will need to attract investment of R224-billion if it’s to develop a substantial green hydrogen industry, the head of government’s climate finance task team said.
MTN South Africa grew its subscriber base by 7.1% at the end of March 2022, from a year ago, to reach 34.5 million subscribers.
MTN Group lifted first quarter pretax profit by 21.1% year on year, supported by service revenue growth amid demand for data and financial services.
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Samsung Electronics intends to invest the equivalent of about R1.7-trillion over the next decade or so to take on Intel and Qualcomm in the business of making advanced chip processors.
Microsoft analysts expect strong third quarter results from the company on Wednesday as its cloud computing division continues to see rapid growth.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again called for technology to be regulated, suggesting that the US could take inspiration from Europe’s GDPR rules to better protect user data.
A shopping trolley that is able to brake automatically when a possible collision is detected has been invented in a bid to prevent bored children causing chaos as their parents do the food shop.
The African leg of a new submarine telecommunications system that will serve markets in the North and South Atlantic will be ready for service in the first quarter of 2014. The cable will offer high-speed global connectivity to SA, Angola and Nigeria. That’s the word from the Wasace Cable Company, which is building the
Telkom’s mobile arm, 8ta, hit the ground running in the months after its launch in 2010, offering compelling products and spending a small fortune plastering its brand across billboards and newspapers. But industry insiders say the mobile operator hasn’t managed to capitalise on its early

































