Mobile payments platform M-Pesa has topped 50 million active users – measured by monthly active customers – telecommunications group Vodacom said on Tuesday.
Bitcoin is undergoing the biggest test in its 12-year history as El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt it as legal tender on Tuesday.
Communications regulator Icasa has served notice on operators that it will withdraw temporary spectrum allocated under the Covid-19 regulations at the end of November. This is wrongheaded. By Duncan McLeod.
Telkom has become the latest mobile operator to chop ad hoc data prices, cutting the headline price of 1GB of data to R79 – R6 less than rivals Vodacom and MTN – and introducing a new 1.5GB bundle.
It’s no coincidence that an edict barring kids in China from playing online videogames for most of the week came as the education ministry introduced a new subject to the national curriculum: Xi Jinping Thought.
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Promoted | Flickswitch, a leader in data Sim management solutions for enterprises in Africa, has expanded its SIMcontrol offering to include NB-IoT on the Vodacom South Africa mobile network.
Promoted | Integrated ICT and infrastructure provider Vox has launched Gaming Essentials, a quality-of-service feature that ensures a superior connectivity experience for local gamers.
Rudi Jansen, a former CEO of Mweb and a pioneer in South Africa’s early Internet industry, has died. Jansen passed away on Saturday — from a heart attack, according to an industry colleague.
The advent of gaming, especially computer gaming, marks a fundamental break in human affairs. It is profoundly transforming two central aspects of the modern world: culture and regulation. There will be no turning back.