MTN South African has announced that it will spend R4bn more than previously budgeted for on its network in 2016, boosting its capex plan for the financial year to 31 December by 50% to R12bn
MTN South Africa has expressed concern about government’s plans for allocating new spectrum for 4G/LTE networks, saying the wrong policy risks undermining one of the few sectors in South Africa that is
In Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, economist Daron Acemoglu and political scientist James A Robinson argue compellingly that the key to economic growth and prosperity lies in strong and inclusive institutions
Datatec subsidiary Logicalis has agreed to acquire Spain’s Lantares, a partner of IBM Cognos and professional services provider specialising in business intelligence and data analytics. In a voluntary
The Democratic Alliance on Thursday called for a snap debate on what it called the political assault against finance minister Pravin Gordhan and the national treasury. DA shadow minister of
Troubled technology group Altron has reported a 75c normalised diluted headline loss per share for the 2016 financial year to 29 February, a sharp reversal from headline earnings per share in 2015 of 99c. In light of the poor numbers, and the need
Vodacom wants to work with one or more other major telecommunications operators in South Africa to deploy fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure to reduce costs and make the business case for
Google has used its developer conference, I/O 2016 in San Francisco, to take the wraps off Google Home, a new hardware device, similar to Amazon’s Echo, that allows users to have natural-language
You’d think they are about to launch the next big thing in mobile broadband, the way South Africa’s mobile operators are going on about LTU-Unlicensed technology. Vodacom, MTN and Cell C have also clamoured for the headlines in recent days as
The SABC has tripled its monetary support of Gupta-owned media, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. The public broadcaster has spent more than R700 000 on subscriptions to The New Age newspaper since May 2014, communications