Two incidents at City Power’s Mayfair substation left the public broadcaster relying on generators for days.
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Sakeliga wants the high court to set aside Icasa’s decision on Solly Malatsi’s empowerment policy direction.
Telkom says Icasa’s equity rules go beyond the B-BBEE Act and may have deterred network investment.
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Eskom is implementing stage-2 load shedding with immediate effect. This is after unit 5 of the Medupi power station tripped, taking 700MW of capacity offline.
The South African Reserve Bank has taken a step closer to creating a national digital currency. This is after it took the wraps last week off the second phase of Project Khokha.
The Western Cape government wants construction of the new, R4.6-billion Amazon.com Africa headquarters in Cape Town to resume.
E.tv has filed papers with the constitutional court on an urgent basis seeking an appeal of the high court judgment that analogue terrestrial television broadcasts in South Africa be switched off on 30 June.
Just one working day before it was due to take on communications regulator Icasa in a high-stakes, week-long battle in the high court, Telkom has withdrawn its legal action over the recent spectrum auction.
Vodacom will use its newly acquired spectrum assets to build out 4G and 5G infrastructure and grow its presence in the wireless broadband market, CEO Shameel Joosub said.
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Facebook is undergoing one of its most widespread and persistent system outages, with users across the globe unable to access its social network and services from Instagram to Messenger.
Spotify has submitted a complaint against Apple to the European Commission arguing that the iPhone maker gives itself an unfair advantage by charging digital app rivals a 30% “tax” on purchases made through iOS.
Top US universities are shunning research money from Huawei amid pressure from congress and the Trump administration to limit dealings with the Chinese company over national security concerns.
Apple continues to struggle with iPhone demand, with trends going “from bad to worse”, according to Longbow Research.
Give thanks, for once, to the law of unintended consequences. Too often, it seems, the secondary effects of policy decisions turn out to be at least perverse, if not downright detrimental. But in the case of last week’s congressional vote to extend America’s emergency payroll tax-cuts, the knock-on effects look
If you worked for five years on one project and had little to show for your efforts, would your boss fire you? The government has been plugging away at the digital terrestrial television migration now for half a decade and the broadcasting sector says the building blocks are still not in place. So what went wrong? And, why

































