Vodacom’s Egyptian unit will co-invest through a joint venture with Elsewedy Electric and Cassava Technologies.
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Home-Connect and Afrihost charge the same prices and apply the same fair-use limits on Comsol’s new network.
Vodacom has since secured waivers from its lenders, but its appeal against the ruling has yet to be heard.
Vodacom South Africa’s prepaid revenue accelerated in the second quarter, and its margin hit its highest level since FY2023.
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Microsoft’s effort to overhaul its entire line-up with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps.
The wireless data provider is set to record more than R2-billion in full-year Ebitda, after IFRS 16 adjustments, shareholder ARC Investments said.
Rain, which provides wireless, data-only services, plans soon to launch a mobile service, one of its shareholders said.
Government has given assurances that the electricity grid won’t be allowed to collapse. Yet increasing numbers of businesses are preparing for that very eventuality.
The energy solutions provider is seeking to service a market hungry for such solutions in the face of Eskom’s crippling power cuts.
Santam has announced it’s acquiring MTN South Africa’s mobile device insurance book, which has about 400 000 policies.
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The world’s biggest contract chip maker said it plans to build a $12-billion factory in the US in an apparent win for the Trump administration’s efforts to wrestle global tech supply chains back from China.
China is ready to put US companies in an “unreliable entity list” as part of countermeasures against Washington’s move to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies, the Global Times reported on Friday.
Apple has acquired NextVR, a start-up that provides sports and other content for virtual-reality headsets. The acquisition may help Apple’s development of VR and AR headsets with accompanying software and content.
One of China’s best-performing stocks so far in 2020 is a little-known server maker that last year abruptly joined the same US blacklist that threatens Huawei Technologies’ survival.
Icasa has become a “political football”, according to the Democratic Alliance. Just weeks after it seemed certain that the communications regulator would report into the department of telecommunications and postal services, communications minister Faith Muthambi has told parliament that it
The ongoing decline in the number of fixed lines in service in South Africa, a trend that has been evident for more than a decade now, is a “big concern” for Telkom, but is the result of fixed-to-mobile substitution more than the cost of line rental. That’s according to the group’s chief operating officer

































