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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Prosus and Naspers have invested $1.3-billion building a 31% stake in Swiggy ahead of its listing on Wednesday.
A 2G/3G shutdown deadline should not be imposed by government, communications minister Solly Malatsi said.
The past 10 years have produced no new laws on the SABC and no new framework for the broadcasting industry.
MultiChoice has reported a 99% fall in half-year profit and described the operating environment as “extremely hostile”.
Operators have been urged not to ignore A2P messaging as a revenue source, especially in Africa.
The Foschini Group is mounting a challenge to global giants expanding aggressively into the local e-commerce market.
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Netflix has averted its own worst-case scenario of subscriber losses, posting a nearly one million drop from April to June.
Twitter can fast-track its lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk over his cancelled $44-billion buyout of the social media platform.
Slack will increase prices for its platform, its first price hike since its 2014 launch, as the company seeks to invest more in innovation.
Twitter has dismissed Elon Musk’s complaints that he doesn’t have enough information about spam and robot accounts as an “irrelevant sideshow”.
At Google, some employees use a tool that restricts time spent on e-mail. A senior Apple executive said his wife used a device that sets iPhone and iPad limits for their children. Members of a venture capital firm meditate before phone
Vakhtang Gogokhia’s plan to extract cryptocurrencies from the netherworld of cyberspace relies on a strategy familiar to many old-school manufacturers who use a lot of energy – the cheaper the fuel, the better. That’s

































