DJ Zinhle’s Bestie Connect is a prepaid mobile network on MTN, aimed squarely at her followers.
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Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
Democrats’ midterm election sweep have sent shares in US tech giants soaring.
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The average post-paid subscriber on MTN’s network consumes 21.9GB of data a month – up 44% year on year.
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed “Operator”.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to withdraw the SABC Bill is causing major political ructions.
Teraco has raised an R8-billion syndicated loan and announced it will build a 40MW “hyperscale” data centre in Johannesburg.
Technology investor Prosus hopes to list Indian digital payments and lending firm PayU next year.
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Microsoft Teams was back up for most users after an hours-long outage that disrupted the chat application globally.
Ford Motor Co is preparing to cut as many as 8 000 jobs in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the plan.
Bitcoin rebounded after a brief selloff late on Wednesday, sparked by news that Tesla had sold about 75% of its holdings of the virtual token.
Apple has published detailed report outlining its health features and partnerships with medical institutions, arguing that such offerings are key to its future.
Government’s Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is unconstitutional, will create a new infrastructure monopoly in the form of a proposed wholesale open-access network and will ultimately be detrimental
Telkom wants a drastically different approach to future spectrum allocation than its bigger rivals, MTN and Vodacom, arguing in a submission to government that all unassigned high-demand spectrum
