Icasa has amended regulations in a move that will materially change how mobile data, voice and SMS bundles work.
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Starlink dominates South African headlines, but pricing and market realities raise questions about who it’s really for.
The improving currency should help drive down prices for software and hardware, including computers and phones.
Can artificial intelligence help you drive better and avoid accidents on the road? Discovery Insure thinks so.
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A sub-variant of the Omicron coronavirus strain, known as BA.2, is spreading rapidly in South Africa and may cause a second surge of infections in the current wave.
Eskom will implement the first load shedding of 2022 from today, 2 February. The rotational power cuts will begin at 11am and continue until 5am on Monday.
MTN Group has raised gross proceeds R4.3-billion through the sale of shares in its Nigerian subsidiary that has seen its stake in reduced to 75.6%.
VodaPay and other financial services offerings are playing an increasingly important role in Vodacom Group’s growth story.
Naspers has closed its OLX in South Africa, saying the move was done so it can focus its customer proposition fully on its property and motor vehicle platforms.
Moove, the African fintech start-up that partners with Uber, has announced its second major fundraising round in less than six months.
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The US government is weighing new limits on sales of chips and other vital components to China’s Huawei Technologies, sparking another furious round of lobbying by technology companies.
Intel has bought Habana Labs, an Israeli start-up that develops chips for artificial intelligence applications, for about $2-billion to bolster its efforts in the fast-growing market for AI silicon.
China’s ambassador threatened Germany with retaliation if it excludes Huawei Technologies as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, citing the millions of vehicles German car makers sell in China.
US President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the 15 December introduction of a new wave of US tariffs on about $160-billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation.
Cabinet’s decision this month to mandate the use of a control system in the set-top boxes government will subsidise for poorer households has led to a great deal of confusion in South Africa’s broadcasting industry. The decision largely went in favour of e.tv, which has
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2013. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad
