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High mobile internet use may be masking a fibre broadband shortfall that is limiting South Africa’s economic growth.
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South Africa has recorded the second death resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, a 74-year-old man from Ladysmith who had been in ICU and on ventilation in a private hospital in Ladysmith.
Telecommunications operators and Internet service providers are working to find alternative routes after another break in the West African Cable System – the third this year – threatens to slow down Internet access in South Africa.
Africa is two to three weeks away from the worst of the coronavirus storm and needs an emergency economic stimulus of $100-billion to bolster preventative measures, according to a UN agency.
South Africa may approach the International Monetary Fund for the first time ever to help with funding to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, the Sunday Times reported, citing finance minister Tito Mboweni.
The West African Cable System has suffered another break – at the worst possible time for South Africa, with many people now relying on home broadband connections to work.
Moody’s cut South Africa’s credit rating below investment grade, delivering the country a full house of junk assessments as it grapples with a nationwide lockdown.
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said he’s rejoining the company six years after he left, becoming the second creator to return to help revive the struggling social media service. In his new role, Stone will be focused on company culture
Samsung Electronics and Intel weighed in with their own gripes about Qualcomm while cheering on the US Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing the chip maker of trying to corner the market for semiconductors
The cyberattack that spread rapidly around the globe was stifled when a security researcher disabled a key mechanism used by the worm to spread, but experts said the hackers were likely to return as many
Extortionist hackers who may be using leaked computer exploits from the US National Security Agency infiltrated computers in dozens of countries in a fast-spreading attack that forced British hospitals to turn
