MTN alone has been pushing 90 million Sim cards a year, and says the base is riddled with bad registrations.
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Sites, grid connections and power-purchase agreements are in place for 180MW, but nothing is generating yet.
R46.2-billion of prepaid electricity moved through the group in the year to May, up 4%. The commission it earned fell 13%.
The last big launch of Tim Cook’s tenure comes as memory costs push prices up and always-on agents drive demand.
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Tencent and Ubisoft’s founding Guillemot family are considering a potential buyout of the French game developer.
Secure Express is offering what it says are more comfortable and significantly more secure rides.
Scrapping equity requirements for licensees in the ICT sector will encourage foreign investment, the minister said.
StarSat has accused the communications regulator of ulterior motives following a raid at the broadcaster’s premises.
Eskom has been using diesel-fuelled auxiliary turbines extensively to stave off power cuts.
AI still has amazing potential, but it may be time to take a moment to consider where it will actually be the most useful.
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Gaming companies are facing a slowdown in demand for videogames from pandemic highs, raising doubts about their ability to weather a downturn.
Walt Disney Co edged past Netflix with a total of 221 million streaming customers and announced it will increase prices for US customers.
African e-commerce firm Jumia Technologies said it was past peak losses, driving its shares up 16% despite a wider quarterly loss.
Elon Musk sold $6.9-billion of his shares in Tesla, his biggest sale on record, saying he needed cash in case he is forced to buy Twitter.
Naspers is cashing in a sliver of one of the greatest venture capital investments ever. The Cape Town-based company is selling R126bn of shares in Tencent Holdings, equal to 2% of the stock in the Chinese operator
Facebook tried to get ahead of its latest media firestorm. Instead, it helped create one. The company knew ahead of time that on Saturday, The New York Times and The Guardian’s Observer would issue bombshell reports that

































