Icasa has amended regulations in a move that will materially change how mobile data, voice and SMS bundles work.
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Ferdi Moolman, the longstanding CEO of MTN Nigeria, MTN Group’s largest operating subsidiary, will step down from the role at the end of February 2021.
Software services group Adapt IT on Monday published full-year financial results to 30 June 2020 that showed remarkable resilience in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.
Eskom, the indebted South African state power utility, will announce its annual results this week after a three-month delay.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni will have to find money to help the economy recover from its longest recession in three decades and bail out state companies in a budget that’s projected to record the biggest shortfall since 1914.
South Africa’s only high-speed rail network is drawing up a multibillion-rand plan to expand outside Johannesburg and Pretoria, joining a potential bonanza of infrastructure projects.
Apple is planning updates to its AirPods earbuds next year, seeking to capitalise on the success of a product that has become an important source of growth.
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Facebook has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join the social network, according to people familiar with
A few hours after Elon Musk berated analysts for what he perceived as unimaginative questions, Volkswagen has said it was writing a cheque for batteries that almost match Tesla’s entire market value. VW has awarded
The earnings report started optimistically enough, with Elon Musk forecasting an end to Tesla’s cash-burning days after blazing through another $1bn last quarter. But by the end of Tesla’s first-quarter conference call, Musk
Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm embroiled in the scandal over its work for US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, said it’s shutting down all operations effective immediately. The firm said on Wednesday
Zimbabwe cellphone subscribers have increased four-fold since a unity government took office last year, but local firms say they battle to attract investors who worry the political truce won’t last. In 2008, when the local currency was ravaged by world-record hyperinflation, Sim cards were selling for up to US$220 — not including a phone.
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.
