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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A tender document issued by Sita makes facial recognition a hard requirement for body cameras, with no quantities set.
Lesaka Southern Africa CEO Lincoln Mali says merchant division growth will return only in the second half of FY2027.
Nineteen battery-electric models were shown at the Festival of Motoring. Only the Suzuki e Vitara was not Chinese.
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South African-founded chat commerce specialist Clickatell, which is now headquartered in California, has secured R1.4-billion in a series-C funding round.
The Gauteng government and the University of Johannesburg will launch the Gauteng E-Waste Management System to tackle the province’s mounting electronic waste problem.
Naspers Foundry said on Tuesday that it will invest R15-million in Cape Town-based Floatplays, an “on-demand earned wage access platform”.
Icasa has vetted and approved all six companies that bid to take part in next month’s radio frequency spectrum auction for mobile broadband services.
Tencent denied talk that it’s facing a major regulatory crackdown in China, issuing an unusually aggressive public response. Shares in Naspers still tanked.
Many South African companies already use software from US CRM specialist Salesforce.com. Now the company has officially established a “legal entity” in the country.
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Apple has announced a string of new services as the company looks to further establish itself outside of smartphones.
Apple has unveiled its own TV and movie streaming subscription service, joining juggernauts Netflix and Amazon Prime Video for a slice of the lucrative streaming business.
YouTube has cancelled plans for high-end dramas and comedies, people with knowledge of the matter said, a pullback from its grand ambitions for a paid service with Hollywood-quality shows.
Uber Technologies is set to announce a $3.1-billion cash-and-share deal to acquire its Dubai-based rival Careem Networks as early as this week, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
MTN is facing a storm over claims that it helped the Iranian government to spy on local subscribers and assisted the regime in its brutal crackdown on protesters in 2009 and 2010. In court papers lodged in the US last week, rival mobile operator Turkcell alleged that MTN told its Iranian military-linked partners it
Telkom’s management team failed to follow internal tender procedures and is to blame for a court interdict on Friday that prevents it from continuing with work to improve its access network into homes and businesses. This is the allegation levelled against the operator by networking equipment vendor ZTE Mzanzi, a joint venture between China’s ZTE and local black empowerment
