South Africa’s fibre market is entering an “Open Access 2.0” era shaped by scale, behaviour and enforcement.
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The move comes amid a feud between Sentech and the SABC over the former’s fees for signal distribution.
Satellite broadband promises to weaken authoritarian regimes’ ability to shut down the internet and silence dissent.
Stable electricity supply and an enabling macroeconomic environment have laid the groundwork for the sector’s continued growth in 2026.
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South Africa’s three largest cryptocurrency exchanges say they have been approached by the South African Revenue Service as part of a tax risk assessment exercise on residents.
South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to a new record high of 32.6% in the first quarter of 2021 from 32.5% in the final quarter of 2020, the statistics agency said on Tuesday.
Business software group SAP is adopting flexible working for its 100 000 employees around the world, after the experience of remote working during Covid-19 drew overwhelmingly positive feedback.
The share price of Adapt IT jumped by more than 18% in intraday trading on Monday following Huge Group’s unexpected decision on Friday to dramatically up its offer to buy the JSE-listed software services group.
Eskom will implement rolling blackouts nationwide at stage 2 from 4pm on Monday, the state-owned utility said in a statement.
Cedric Miller, the chief financial officer at JSE-listed technology group Altron, has resigned. He will leave on 30 June, Altron told investors.
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Amazon reported a rise in revenue and profits for the last quarter, as the tech giant published its latest set of financial results.
Facebook reported revenue that beat Wall Street estimates as advertisers stuck with the social media company through a series of privacy scandals.
Microsoft reported second quarter sales that met projections, though weakness in the PC market and broader concern about slowing cloud services growth sent the shares lower in late trading.
Google’s social network, Google+, will start to disappear from next week, as the company prepares for the site’s eventual closure in April.
Cellular operator MTN has warned that the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) draft proposals for licensing of spectrum in high-demand spectrum bands have the “high risk” of leading to “regulatory failure”. Efficient licensing of spectrum in the two bands in question
Cell C has slammed telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), over its invitation to apply for valuable radio frequency spectrum, accusing the authority of opening itself up to legal challenge and of producing a document “so vague so as to not be capable of proper interpretation”
