Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene should stop giving further financial lifelines to Eskom and restructure the embattled electricity provider, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. “Bold
Parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Tuesday said it was satisfied with the stricken South African Post Office’s progress towards stability. In a statement issued following
Cell C and Telkom have emerged as the winners in new research into which of South Africa’s operators offer the best contract plans for four pre-defined and distinct customer types. Tariffic, which
South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1,5% in 2014, after an increase of 2,2% in 2013, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Compared to 2013, the unadjusted real GDP at market prices for the fourth
Eight thousand homes and businesses in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city, now have access to a fibre broadband service offering speeds of up to 100Mbit/s. CEC Liquid Telecommunications intends offering uncapped access to the Internet to Zambian
Despite its small, dispersed population, the desert nation of Namibia is trumping its neighbour, South Africa, when it comes to the cost of mobile broadband, a new research report says. “The dynamic bundling observable in other countries such as Namibia has not yet
Any doubt that lower wholesale call termination rates have led to a sharp decline in retail mobile tariffs in South Africa should be put to rest, new research shows. South Africans have benefited directly from a reduction in termination rates – the fees telecommunications
“The Internet is forever.” So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material – such as stolen photographs – permanently from the Web. Yet, paradoxically, the vast and growing digital sphere faces enormous losses. Google has been criticised
The ZA Tech Show is back up and running in earnest and this week. Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose gather in the studio for a discussion about wearable technology and fitness trackers, the new Fitbit Charge, the benefits and drawbacks of tracking and monitoring
After too long off the mic and several false starts, the ZA Tech Show resumes this week. Brett Haggard and Andy Hadfield (who’s now plying his entrepreneurial prowess at Forgood) talk about why there’s been a delay in the show coming out. More importantly, they dive