MTN’s network spending in South Africa fell 17.1% while Nigeria received nearly three times as much in capital investments.
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MTN Group faces a R3.9-billion write-down, cash it cannot move and a stake it cannot sell, just as Washington escalates.
In a marked break from rivals Vodacom and Telkom, MTN South Africa is dialling back airtime advances to its customers.
Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.
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Icasa has published final amendments to the regulations that will see the further cutting of the rates.
OpenAI’s Sora is finally here, and it’s mind-blowing, according to reports. This and more in today’s edition of Bookmarks.
Google has claimed it can now solve a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the universe.
US President-elect Donald Trump must decide which bothers him more: Europe or Big Tech.
Primetime viewership statistics show that soapies, news and sports are why South Africans watch TV.
WhatsApp is evolving from a messaging app into an “everything app” under Meta. This and more in today’s Bookmarks.
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Cryptocurrency broker Genesis and its parent DCG owe customers of crypto exchange Gemini $900-million, the FT reported.
Apple’s iPhone 14 generation may fall 16 million units shy of expectations this year.
A plan to build the first fibre-optic cable across the Arctic has secured its first investment.
Even on Elon Musk’s Twitter, there are red lines for permissible content, and Kanye West crossed one of them.
When the call came, Robert Wickel wasted little time. The subject? Reservations for Porsche’s all-electric Taycan were coming, even though the vehicle wouldn’t enter production until next year.
Social media platforms now shape public discourse as powerfully as newspapers and magazines did a generation ago, perhaps more so.
