Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub says AST SpaceMobile is the likely partner, and that the service won’t work on 2G and 3G phones.
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Telkom says Icasa’s equity rules go beyond the B-BBEE Act and may have deterred network investment.
Jacques du Toit steps down after more than a decade in charge, as Vox and Frogfoot close in on their R14.4-billion funding deal.
US senator Kevin Cramer says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang must go as reports link his affair to China chip sales.
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Finance minister Tito Mboweni will present the 2020 national budget in parliament on Wednesday, starting at 2pm. Watch the livestream of the minister’s speech here.
Haemorrhaging cash and drowning in debt, South Africa’s state power utility is trying to persuade the energy regulator to allow it to raise its prices to offset lower-than expected sales and unforeseen expenses.
A labour union is trying to prevent Telkom from continuing with a plan to cut as much as 20% of its workforce to cope with falling sales in its landline business and a weak South African economy.
Mango will halt all flights to and from Lanseria at the end of March 2020. This comes as parent SAA will cease all domestic flights with the exception of a limited service to Cape Town at the end of February.
Arguments that the largest digital token acts as a place of shelter during market turmoil diminished this week as bitcoin slumped amid an intense bout of equity-market selling.
MultiChoice has strongly criticised former communications minister Yunus Carrim, who on Tuesday told the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture that a controversial 2013 channel supply agreement between MultiChoice and the SABC amounted to “policy capture”.
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American telecoms firms are clamouring for more wireless spectrum. Hence the interest in LightSquared, a firm which had hoovered up a chunk of airwaves formerly used by satellite operators. It planned to build a high-speed terrestrial network and rent it out to others. But on 14 February, America’s
Apple has unveiled its next big cat operating system for desktops, Mac OS X “Mountain Lion”, which shares even more with iOS than its predecessor. Like OS X Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion (technically Mac OS X version 10.8) is being positioned as a minor upgrade over last year’s Lion release. For the most part
To pin or not to pin: that is not the question on Pinterest . In fact, according to data gathered by e-commerce analytics platform RJMetrics, Pinterest retains a remarkably high percentage of new users who go on to use the site at high rates and stay active on the site long after they’ve joined. Pinterest is the digital
Networking technology giant Cisco has filed an appeal with the European Union over last October’s approval of Microsoft’s US$8,5bn acquisition of Skype. Cisco, along with Italian voice-over-Internet Protocol provider Messagenet, is challenging the decision to approve the merger because the European
