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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Transport minister Fikile Mbalula says there are no easy solutions to the demand that e-tolling in Gauteng be scrapped.
A dog-like robot being developed to hop across complex terrain on other planets has been used to play a live-action game of ping pong in its latest phase of testing.
Jabu Mabuza, chairman of the South African power utility regarded as the biggest risk to the nation’s economy, has taken on a non-executive director role at pay-television company MultiChoice Group.
Spotify has launched a “lite” version of its music streaming app aimed at users in emerging markets like South Africa where data costs can be prohibitive.
Datatec subsidiary Logicalis Group has acquired Mars Technologies, an IT services company with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London employing 76 people.
A new fixed surcharge of R200/month means that City of Johannesburg residents who use prepaid electricity will see actual increases of up to 66% in the cost of power from this month.
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A radical Islamist sect that has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria appears to have added a new target for its violence: mobile phone towers. Attacks in the last day have damaged more than 30 towers operated by all the major providers in the country, further
Huawei says it has won contracts to provide new backhaul networks for Movicel in Angola and MTC in Namibia, both of which plan to launch among the continent’s first commercial long-term evolution (LTE) networks. The Chinese company has already been instrumental in the
After switching off interconnection with state-owned mobile operator NetOne, Zimbabwe’s largest mobile operator, Econet Wireless, has been forced to reverse its decision by the Southern African country’s high court. Econet claims it is owed US$20m by its rival. Econet cut links with its rival last Thursday, claiming NetOne had
Zimbabwe is to be hooked up to the high-capacity West Africa Cable System (Wacs), the submarine telecommunications pipe that extends from SA to London along Africa’s west coast, thanks to a deal its incumbent fixed-line operator has concluded with its Namibia counterpart. The announcement was made
