Under MTN’s new wholesale model, an MVNO that wants aggressive retail pricing can have it, but there’s a catch.
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Nineteen battery-electric models were shown at the Festival of Motoring. Only the Suzuki e Vitara was not Chinese.
A tender document issued by Sita makes facial recognition a hard requirement for body cameras, with no quantities set.
Existing subscribers have until 12 October to move across, after which the current app stops working.
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Prosus expects to write off the equivalent of R11.8-billion and has asked its directors on the board of social media platform VK to resign.
Eskom will continue power cuts until 5am on Saturday after many of its power plant units broke down on Monday and are now under repair.
Icasa will finally auction access to spectrum for mobile broadband services this week. But a looming court battle could still derail the allocation.
EOH Holdings will meet with investors in the coming days to assess its “strategic options” for dealing with its gearing problem.
Load shedding has struck again. Eskom will cut the power on a rolling basis across South Africa at stage 2 from 5pm on Monday afternoon.
Traders are adding bets on an outsized interest rate increase in South Africa later this month as the surge in the price of oil fuels inflation expectations.
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Apple shares rose for a tenth straight session on Tuesday, putting the iPhone maker on track for its longest winning streak since October 2010.
Beijing’s increasing influence in constructing and repairing the undersea cables that move virtually all the information on the Internet is a worry for the US.
Twitter has reduced the number of accounts people are allowed to follow daily in a fresh attempt to take on spam and bots across the social network.
Astronomers are expected to reveal the first close up images of a monster black hole on Wednesday. Eight radio telescopes around the world have been pointed at two of the cosmic behemoths.
MTN’s share price is likely to remain wobbly as jittery foreign investors face massive pressure from US authorities and lobby groups to quit their exposure in Africa’s R255bn cellphone giant because of its business activities in Iran. The company is in danger of being smacked with US sanctions for allegedly providing the Iranian government
The Brics Cable, a superfast broadband submarine network that will extend from the east of Russia to the US via SA, and which will cost as much as US$1,5bn to construct, is already at an advanced stage of planning and should be ready by mid to late 2014, according to Andrew Mthembu, the SA businessman
