While EVs remain the focus in this episode of Watts & Wheels, the conversation also turns to something far less planet-friendly.
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The Ilitha Telecoms CEO has argued that meaningful connectivity is what South Africa needs to unlock economic participation.
The partnership aims to use the scale of the SABC Plus platform to expand the reach of Microsoft’s AI training programmes.
Frogfoot has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal through the acquisition of fibre assets from Mitsol.
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As part of an ambitious reform programme, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plans to award telecommunications licences to two private operators next year, and sell a minority stake in Ethio Telecom.
Of all the executives, government officials and consultants being recruited to tackle the mammoth task of rescuing South Africa’s state power utility, the toughest task could fall to the person who has to take it apart.
Google has said it will plug a loophole in the Incognito mode of its Chrome Web browser in a bid to better protect user privacy.
Within four years, more than half of all phones shipped worldwide will support next-generation, superfast 5G networks, according to a new report from research and advisory firm Gartner.
The South African Reserve Bank cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than a year as it almost halved its economic growth forecast for the year.
MTN Group has hired another top executive from Vodacom Group, saying on Wednesday that is has appointed Yolanda Cuba as its new chief digital and fintech officer.
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While the number of fixed lines in service in South Africa continues to fall, the opposite is happening in Kenya, where Telkom Kenya has grown the number of fixed lines in service from 248 300 to 251 567, or by 1,3%, year on year
Two gigabits per second! That’s more than 50 times faster than the very fastest digital subscriber line service available from Telkom, which tops out at 40Mbit/s. Yet a Sony-backed Internet service provider in Japan, So-net Entertainment, is offering 2Gbit/s access in around Tokyo. Upload speeds
Turn-by-turn navigation from Google has come to more African markets. Android and iPhone users in Kenya, Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire can now get the service through the Google Maps application. Users can search for popular locations by name rather than
France’s Orange has signed a deal to allow tower operator IHS to oversee more than 2 000 of its towers in the West African markets of Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon. Though Orange will continue to own the towers, IHS will manage them for the next 15 years Surplus space on
