Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Netflix has announced an overhaul of its mobile app, with shorts- and reels-style content for phones to take centre stage.
Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
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Google and Facebook are in a race to surround Africa with high-capacity subsea broadband infrastructure, with the former announcing that the first phase of its project, which will connect South Africa to Portugal, will be ready for service in 2021.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering whether to back a proposal to improve troubled Eskom’s debt terms by closing polluting coal plants early to make way for renewable energy.
Bharti Airtel’s Africa unit plunged in London trading after raising about $750-million in an initial public offering, making it among the worst debuts on European exchanges this year.
Discovery Bank will start accepting new clients from Monday, three months later than it had anticipated when it unveiled its banking proposition in November.
Presidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels.
Tiso Blackstar, the owner of various media assets including the Sunday Times, Business Day and the Financial Mail, is selling the rump of its business to Lebashe Investment Group for over R1-billion.
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Consumers and operators will be inconvenienced at the end of September if a planned switch-off of counterfeit handsets takes place. Consumers will lose connectivity, while operators are set to lose revenue. An estimated 2,4m mobile phone users in Kenya use counterfeit devices. Kenya’s Communications
Kenya’s government has secured a 6bn shilling (R580m) loan from China to connect 36 Kenyan districts using fibre-optic cable. The project is intended to provide the East African nation’s government with the ability to communicate and transact digitally, even from remote areas. The project forms part of a
Kenya looks set to crack down on copper-cable thieves, with parliament introducing amended legislation that will see perpetrators facing fines of Sh5m (R500 000) or 10 years in jail. Under current Kenyan law, the destruction of electricity and power cables is punishable by a fine of Sh100 000 (R10 000), a
Following lobbying from broadcasters, consumer bodies and Kenya’s communication commission, the East African nation has scrapped import duties on set-top boxes (STBs), the decoders that allow analogue television sets to receive digital broadcasts. The
