Nokia smartphones will make a comeback next year, and the current owners of the Finnish brand are betting that the connection it built with billions of consumers during a decade of dominance hasn’t been broken. HMD Global has secured
In a news cycle still fixated on the US election result, on 15 November members of the UK’s upper house of parliament gave final approval to the country’s most invasive surveillance legislation to date. The Investigatory Powers Act gives government
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has questioned whether the department of telecommunications & postal services has conducted a regulatory impact assessment for its planned wireless open-access network. The controversial proposed
The focus on “state capture” in South Africa has tended to divert attention from a deeper question. How can the distribution of wealth and control over the economy be changed in material terms? There is an implicit justification for corruption
The Orange Online Store, a source of lower-cost handsets free of operator bloatware, has been shut down in South Africa — and worldwide. South African visitors to the online store, operated by the French
MTN Group executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko has sold shares worth about R123m as he prepares to hand over the day-to-day running of Africa’s biggest wireless company to incoming CEO Rob Shuter. Nhleko will also benefit from the
Seacom, the company that built the first subsea telecommunications cable along Africa’s east coast, has said it plans to make acquisitions that will give it direct access to metropolitan fibre infrastructure
Eskom’s most ardent supporter of the proposed nuclear build, Matshela Koko, has been appointed as acting group CEO of Eskom. The announcement was made by public enterprises minister Lynne Brown late on Wednesday
Netflix is making some television shows and movies available for download to watch offline, providing its users a feature that has become a must-have for binge-watchers. Many fans have requested to watch Netflix content without an
GoPro, struggling to get traction with its action-cameras and new drone, said it will eliminate about 15% of its workforce and shut down its entertainment division to reduce costs. The company, which isn’t profitable, will cut more