Despite cost pressures, South Africa’s cloud market is on track to exceed R100-billion by 2029, according to BMIT.
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The decision by Leon Schreiber to hike fees for accessing home affairs’ online verification system will be reviewed in court.
Amid stiff competition, DStv is cutting hardware costs and letting households split subscription payments.
South African shoppers can now search Amazon using images, screenshots or barcodes with Amazon Lens.
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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.
Operators will no longer have to hand back temporary spectrum assignments, awarded to them under the Covid-19 state of disaster regulations, until the spectrum auction is held in March 2021.
JSE-listed software services company Adapt IT saw a massive jump in its share price on Wednesday after it issued a surprisingly upbeat trading statement.
Remgro, the largest shareholder in CIVH – the parent company of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa – has attached a R19.3-billion valuation to the telecoms infrastructure holding company.
Cash Paymaster Services, which used to pay out social grants on behalf of the South African Social Security Agency, is to go into liquidation.
Communications regulator Icasa will this week publish the long-awaited invitation to apply (ITA) for so-called high-demand spectrum in the Government Gazette. Here’s what to expect.
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The woman who police say went on a shooting rampage at YouTube headquarters on Tuesday was a video creator who criticised the company for policies she claimed limited her audience, according to media
It took more than three hours on Tuesday morning to get Spotify trading publicly, in a stock sale as unorthodox as streaming digital music once seemed. Spotify Technology’s shares – sold via a direct
Spotify Technology shares climbed from their reference price after it began trading through a direct listing on Tuesday. The company skipped the traditional initial public offering process in favour of a route rarely
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back at recent remarks by Tim Cook, calling the Apple CEO’s criticism of the social media giant “extremely glib”. Cook was asked about Facebook’s privacy crisis last month and
Technology billionaire Mark Shuttleworth has slammed government’s failure to fix problems at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), warning ongoing capacity problems at the regulator are hampering economic growth. Shuttleworth, speaking to TechCentral following Icasa’s decision last week to postpone an auction of valuable radio frequency spectrum, says there is no “clear prioritisation of telecommunications as a vital source of growth in the SA economy”.
Mobile operators are appealing to the department of justice to extend the deadline of the Regulation of Interception and Communication Act (Rica), says Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys. The act requires that all telecommunications providers and Internet providers register customer details, including their ID numbers and physical addresses. The process has to be completed by January next year, after which unregistered customers have to be cut off from the networks.
