MTN South Africa lost 1.1 million prepaid users between March and June as it purged credit-dependent customers.
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Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.
MTN’s network spending in South Africa fell 17.1% while Nigeria received nearly three times as much in capital investments.
New shareholders have taken up shares in Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa in a transaction valuing the businesses at R14.4-billion.
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The justice department is taking the regulator to court to fight a fine imposed following a cyberattack.
Parliament was given three years to pass a new law remedying the unconstitutionality in Rica. That deadline is fast approaching.
South Africa’s Sim card registration law is not working, making it more difficult for the police to fight crime, MPs have heard.
International investors are giving South Africa’s private equity market a wide berth, put off by lethargic output.
South Africa’s near-fourfold increase in rooftop solar in the past year has reduced revenue at Eskom.
Virtual wheeling, being trialled by Vodacom and Eskom, could be one of the answers to the ongoing energy crisis.
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The value of dogecoin dropped sharply in early US hours on Sunday after Elon Musk called it a “hustle” during his guest-host spot on the Saturday Night Live comedy sketch TV show.
Top US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline shut its entire network, the source of nearly half of the US East Coast’s fuel supply, after a cyberattack on Friday that involved ransomware.
Taiwan’s exports beat estimates as surging sales of semiconductors and other electronic components propelled overseas shipments to its fastest growth in more than a decade.
A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tons, is currently on an uncontrolled re-entry phase, and parts of it are expected to crash down to Earth over the next few weeks.
Ever since computers were first introduced into the retail banking system in the late 1950s, there has been the vision of a future world where cash is obsolete. The near death of personal cheques, increase in debit and credit card use, and innovations such as PayPal
Who could possibly be against free Internet access? This is the question that Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India in which he claims Facebook’s Free Basics service “protects net neutrality”. Free Basics is the rebranded Internet.org, a Facebook operation where

































