Rating agency Moody’s has warned that carving transmission out of Eskom could weaken its creditworthiness.
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The Wi-Fi 8 standard trades the gigabit race for reliability – and Icasa’s new spectrum rules make it matter locally.
South Africa’s banks have built thriving mobile businesses on phone numbers and network identities they don’t control.
A sharp cut to the price of diesel should help ease cost pressures across freight, technology and e-commerce.
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Diesel above R30/l is pushing South African fleets towards electric vehicles. Consumer interest is also on the up.
Herotel now has 284 850 connected fibre-to-the-home connections, mostly in smaller towns and townships.
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has compared voice’s decline to the same trajectory SMS followed into irrelevance.
With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.
Severe weather has cut power across dozens of Cape towns, with restoration delayed by unsafe conditions.
Vodacom and MTN groups’ fintech arms now process a combined value of over $1-trillion/year in transactions.
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TikTok has avoided a US ban after ByteDance agreed to a majority American-owned venture.
Apple is also reportedly developing an AI-powered wearable pin that is equipped with multiple cameras.
The EU has formally rejected a proposal from operators that big tech companies should help pay for infrastructure.
Taiwan has secured preferential tariffs as chip makers expand US production under a strategic AI partnership.
