Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional interest in Safaricom, taking majority control.
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Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
Takealot is not treating Amazon’s arrival in South Africa as a threat to be survived so much as a contest just getting under way.
Former DA leader Tony Leon has denied his firm improperly lobbied ministers for clients including Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Intelsat is betting on lower orbits as older industry players try to keep pace with upstarts like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The ISP Association has criticised fibre network operators for making it difficult to switch internet providers.
eMedia is threatening urgent action against MultiChoice Group over its sublicensing agreement with the SABC.
Statistical modelling has the All Blacks as favourites to win the 2023 Rugby World Cup. But don’t count the Boks out.
MTN Group said American Tower Corporation will take over its Nigerian tower operations from IHS Holding from 2025.
Mozambique is seeking to become the latest country to secure an energy-transition pact with wealthy nations.
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Fastly, the company behind a major global Internet outage this week, said the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday urged Ethiopia to open up its telecommunications sector to private mobile money business investors.
US President Joe Biden is withdrawing a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok.
A year-long inquiry into voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri has led to among more than 200 companies expressing concerns of potential anticompetitive practices, EU antitrust regulators said.
Remember those big black disks with holes in the middle that used to be played on “turntables”? They’re not actually ancient history. This past year, worshippers at what novelist Michael Chabon calls “the Church of Vinyl” bought 9,2m records. And though
Earlier this month, YouTube’s new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, YouTube Red, launched its first swag of “original” programmes. This followed news of significant rights acquisitions by SVOD services at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals

































