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The future of JSE-listed electronics and technology group Ellies is in some doubt after it warned this week that Covid-19 has cast “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue as a going concern.

Communications regulator Icasa has published an invitation to apply for parties interested in investing in South Africa’s planned wholesale open-access network, or Woan. These are the details.

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Communications regulator Icasa will finally invite mobile operators to apply to bid for spectrum for 4G and 5G networks from 2 October, with the country’s first-ever auctions expected to take place by March.

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Amid a sea of red in financial markets, bitcoin is still flashing green. The biggest cryptocurrency climbed as much as 5.4% on Tuesday to $9 412, the highest since 7 March. Bitcoin has gained 20% in the past week and 37% in

Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD showed an early model. “Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,” recalled

Sub-Saharan Africa will soon be drowning in international bandwidth. France Telecom’s Orange has announced an extension to the Lower Indian Ocean Network (Lion) cable, adding yet more capacity to the east coast of Africa.

Cabinet should look carefully at all the implications of a review of the policy on digital migration. This is the telling conclusion reached by the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications in a report detailing a review of two television standards being considered for SA’s move from analogue to digital terrestrial television.