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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Norway’s Scatec, the biggest solar power producer in South Africa, is considering direct sales to business customers.
The impact of three undersea broadband cable breaks off Africa’s west coast has been largely offset.
Vodacom and MTN want big internet firms to contribute a “fair share” for carrying data traffic over their networks.
MTN South Africa is targeting 99% network availability during stage-6 load shedding, the CEO of parent MTN Group said.
Global smartphone shipments are headed for their worst year for over a decade.
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said he expects to seal a solar deal with the Chinese government.
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Four Chinese regulators invited billionaire Jack Ma and Ant Group’s top executives to a supervisory interview on Monday, a rare meeting that underscores rising government scrutiny of the company.
The board of Twitter expressed support for CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday and said it had confidence in the social media company’s “current structure”.
Haunted by Russia’s brazen effort to meddle in the last election, US government officials have erected what they believe are formidable barriers to thwart cyberattacks ahead of Tuesday’s presidential vote.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for setting up independent and controllable supply chains to ensure industrial and national security, just as the US moves to cut China off from key exports.
South Africa’s big three mobile operators have taken a “short-term view to satisfy their shareholders” by increasing the price of their post-paid packages, a decision that could come back to haunt them in the longer term. That’s one of the conclusions
“This is the way the world ends,” writes TS Eliot in The Hollow Men, his masterful poem about death and dying. I’m sitting in the load shedding-induced silence, thinking about this remarkable poem
