Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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New research shows that MTN has South Africa’s fastest mobile network and that the company is running rings around rival Vodacom when it comes to 5G performance.
The Competition Commission has approved US-listed Digital Realty’s acquisition of 55% of South African data centre group Teraco.
A nine-week high in the positivity rates and increasing incidence of virus fragments in wastewater point to a resurgence of Covid-19.
The latest bout of load shedding could end by Friday, but Eskom isn’t making any promises. Meanwhile, RMB CEO James Formby wants rules changed to promote investment in renewables.
Walt Disney Co has provided more details about the launch in South Africa next month of Disney+, the company’s fast-expanding streaming service.
Eskom suddenly escalated load shedding to stage 4 on Tuesday morning after the state-owned electricity utility lost more generating units from its fleet.
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Huawei is emerging as the runaway winner in China’s $170-billion effort to build out its 5G wireless networks, part of a concerted effort by Beijing to seize the lead in a key technology from the US.
Netflix posted the strongest financial results in company history Tuesday, adding a record 15.8 million paid subscribers — almost double the figure forecast by Wall Street analysts.
Huawei Technologies’ rapid growth slowed to a crawl in the first quarter after Covid-19 depressed demand for smartphones and networking gear around the globe.
SAP co-CEO Jennifer Morgan, appointed in October to the top executive post alongside Christian Klein, will abruptly leave the German software company at the end of April.
Overall, Vodacom and Telkom Mobile have South Africa’s best post-paid mobile plans, new data from telecommunications research firm Tarifica claims to show. Virgin Mobile scored bottom of the list, coming in in fifth place overall behind Cell C and MTN, but MTN failed to emerge as the winner in even a single category. The Tarifica scores
South Africa’s telecommunications industry has “made too much money for too long” and, as competition intensifies and as government and regulatory scrutiny grows, operators are having to become more cost effective and
