A quartet of newly approved projects is chasing spare grid capacity, not South Africa’s best solar resources.
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Telkom fought to keep its network and South Africa lost a decade. Eskom risks making the same mistake.
eMedia’s landmark deal with Netflix puts its flagship new drama on the streaming giant’s platform a day after broadcast.
In this episode, the Car of the Year controversy, Ferrari’s divisive EV and Stellantis MD Mike Whitfield is in the studio.
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Equinix plans to invest R2.8-billion to build its first data centre in South Africa, as part of the firm’s African expansion push.
Vodacom Group has completed its acquisition of a controlling 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt from parent Vodafone Group.
A blame game’s getting in the way of a solution to South Africa’s 14-year electricity crisis.
Rabelani Dagada is a professor of practice in digital transformation at the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Intelligent Systems.
The City of Johannesburg has asked Eskom for a three-day exemption from continuing outages to enable City Power to stabilise supply.
Months after securing a deal to recapitalise its balance sheet, Cell C has announced it has hired a chief restructuring officer.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s technology in Britain’s 5G network as soon as this year, according to a report.
Zoom, one of the few success stories of the Covid-19 pandemic, now faces a new competitor in an app backed by Asia’s wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani.
Intel’s investment arm will pay some $255-million for a small stake in Reliance Industries’ digital unit Jio Platforms, the latest in a slew of share sales that have helped the Indian conglomerate pay down debt.
Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest social media and videogame company, launched a new California-based studio this week, as it looks to further expand its presence overseas.
A senior executive at Vodacom believes so-called over-the-top (OTT) service providers such as WhatsApp and Skype should be allowed to “run free” on mobile operators’ networks, but emphasises that there is also “no place” in South Africa
With the launch last week of the iPad Air 2, Apple quietly announced a new Sim product that looks set to have a profound impact on mobile telecommunications operators worldwide. Apple’s reprogrammable Sim allows users to switch between data plans without the need to get a new Sim for each carrier
