Home-Connect and Afrihost charge the same prices and apply the same fair-use limits on Comsol’s new network.
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Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says AST SpaceMobile is the likely partner, and that the service won’t work on 2G and 3G phones.
Vodacom Group CEO Joosub has put a price on the Egyptian venture and says South Africa and Kenya are likely to follow.
Government will publish its evidence-based case for 5.2GW of nuclear power at the end of November.
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Africa Data Centres is acquiring Standard Bank’s giant data centre facility in Samrand, north of Johannesburg, for an undisclosed sum. The transaction is subject to the approval of the competition authorities.
JSE-listed 4Sight Holdings has agreed to sell its subsidiary Digitata, which it bought in 2017, for R91.9-million, to its original owners.
Top executives at JSE-listed IT services group EOH Holdings, including CEO Stephen van Coller, will have their salaries cut by 25%, while those earning more than R250 000/year will see their pay reduced by 20%.
EOH Holdings reported a 21.8% decline in total revenue to R6.4-billion in the six months to 31 January 2020, but losses decreased as it said it was making headway with its turnaround plan.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasised the importance of social distancing after a former deputy minister shared a picture of himself and communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, and others, having a meal at his house.
WhatsApp has introduced new stricter limits on message forwarding in a bid to stop the spread of disinformation.
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There are fears that Nigeria is being left behind in information and communications technology (ICT) development after US computer services giant IBM elected to build its first research laboratory in Kenya rather than in the more populous West African state. “When IBM, the US$230bn American IT
Apple has announced it will officially enter the Nigerian market and has appointed four authorised resellers in the West African country. These are iConnect and Orchard in Lagos, and Meed Networks and Cross-Energy Supply in Abuja. To date, Apple products have been sold in the region through unofficial dealers, even though
Tanzania is Vodacom’s second biggest market after SA, but the company’s Tanzania CEO, Rene Meza, says that although mobile penetration in urban areas is more than 80%, in rural areas it’s only 25%. He says this means the company must look to rural areas for growth and operators must ensure there is infrastructure there to
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
