Safaricom’s market share dropped 1.6 percentage points to 65.4% in the three months to June as Bharti Airtel’s Kenyan unit and Telkom Kenya increased mobile phone customers at a faster pace.

Amazon.com will let customers put servers used in the company’s cloud computing data centres into their own facilities, it said on Wednesday.

A new report by Cisco predicts that more traffic will flow across the Internet in the next five years than in the history of the global interconnected network.

Amazon.com has taken a big step toward reducing reliance on Intel for a critical component of its cloud computing service.

Government’s telecommunications bill, if enacted without radical changes, will have a “devastating” effect on the ICT sector, destroying the incentives that have led to almost universal mobile coverage in South Africa.

Vodacom has rubbished the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill’s wholesale open-access provisions, describing them as “intrusive and onerous”.