South Africa’s fibre market is entering an “Open Access 2.0” era shaped by scale, behaviour and enforcement.
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The move comes amid a feud between Sentech and the SABC over the former’s fees for signal distribution.
Satellite broadband promises to weaken authoritarian regimes’ ability to shut down the internet and silence dissent.
Stable electricity supply and an enabling macroeconomic environment have laid the groundwork for the sector’s continued growth in 2026.
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The price of petrol in South Africa’s economic hub of Gauteng will fall to the lowest since March next month.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg began the year by pledging to fix the social network’s problems, but by the end of 2018 finds himself and his company under more scrutiny than ever.
This year has proved to be a breakthrough one for telecommunications giant Huawei, despite continued questions over the company’s links to the Chinese state.
TechCentral’s podcasts had a barnstorming 2018, more than doubling downloads compared to 2017, as more and more South Africans adopted the format for media consumption.
Huawei Technologies projected a 21% jump in 2018 revenue, showing off a sharp acceleration in top-line growth despite a difficult year in which it struggled to dispel growing concerns about its business and the security of its products.
Shares in MTN Group rose as much as 8.2% on Thursday morning after the JSE-listed telecommunications operator said it had reached a favourable settlement with Nigeria’s central bank.
