SpaceX has big plans for its Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, including handsets.
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MTN Group is in advanced discussions to acquire the shares in IHS Holdings that it does not already own.
Digital payments are the foundation of the industry’s push to modernise operations, unlock data and integrate transport systems.
Employers fund costly training as South African tech graduates arrive unprepared for modern, high-demand digital roles.
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The consortium’s plans to expand in Ethiopia have been complicated by the US state development agency’s decision to pause investments in the country.
Huawei will launch its new Harmony operating system for smartphones on 2 June, its biggest move yet aimed at recovering from the damage done by US sanctions to its mobile phone business.
Absa, Investec and the Development Bank of Southern Africa indicated they could support a bid by a Turkish company to supply emergency power to South Africa, sources said.
Telkom is open to reaching an out-of-court settlement with communications regulator Icasa over the spectrum auction, though little progress has been made in any talks.
The number of copper fixed lines in service at Telkom has plunged yet again. At the end of March, the company had fewer than 1.3 million customers using copper, down 20% from 1.6 million a year ago.
A legal wrangle over a power supply contract worth an estimated R218-billion could derail the South African government’s attempts to ease electricity shortages.
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The first high-resolution images of a 34km tall snowman-shaped object that lies a billion miles beyond Pluto have been released by Nasa.
A Chinese spacecraft has made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon in the latest achievement for the country’s growing space programme.
Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees he won’t blame “external factors” for selling fewer iPhones than anticipated during the holiday quarter.
Apple for the first time in almost two decades lowered its revenue outlook citing fewer than expected upgrades to new iPhones, weakness in China’s economy and supply constraints to newer models of the Apple Watch, iPad Pro and AirPods.
Telkom is involved in a multibillion-rand project to increase the throughput of fixed-line broadband to speeds of up to 40Mbit/s. The plans also include dramatically upping the speed of entry-level broadband services and introducing video-on-demand (VOD) products
The National Planning Commission’s long-awaited National Development Plan for 2030, handed to President Jacob Zuma on Friday, has come out strongly in favour of market competition in the telecommunications industry, advocating spectrum trading and raising the
