Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional interest in Safaricom, taking majority control.
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Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
Takealot is not treating Amazon’s arrival in South Africa as a threat to be survived so much as a contest just getting under way.
Former DA leader Tony Leon has denied his firm improperly lobbied ministers for clients including Elon Musk’s Starlink.
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Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has said South Africa has no choice but to shift from coal to renewable energy.
JSE-listed Huge Group, which has been quiet since abandoning its pursuit of now-delisted Adapt IT, said on Monday that it has acquired a stake in Glovent Solutions.
MTN has appointed Tumi Chamayou as the executive of its group enterprise business unit (EBU) with effect from 1 June.
Eskom said it would implement stage-2 rotational power cuts on Monday from 5pm to 10pm after breakdowns at its coal-fired power stations.
Openview, the free-to-air satellite television platform in the eMedia Holdings stable, has turned a profit for the first time on the back of a surge in advertising revenue.
The Wireless Access Providers Association recently called for the 6GHz band to be freed up for a technology called Wi-Fi 6E. Wapa executive Paul Colmer explains why in this podcast.
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Jeff Bezos is about to relinquish the title of world’s richest person to Bill Gates, as Amazon.com shares tumbled in late trading on Thursday.
Nokia only really has two competitors in the telecommunications equipment business, and one of them has been all but banned from much of the market. Pretty ripe conditions for a thriving business? Not for Nokia.
Microsoft rose on Thursday as first quarter results topped estimates and boosted analyst confidence, with Jefferies writing that the software giant should be able “to weather any storm”.
Booming cloud business and Office products helped Microsoft deliver healthy quarterly financial results, while Xbox and Surface slowed down, the company has reported in its latest results.
iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) may be close to signing a deal with either Vodacom or MTN to build a national 4G broadband network based on long-term evolution technology, TechCentral has learnt. Mtshali says WBS has had extensive discussions with
Telkom may be planning to spin off its copper-based network assets into a special purpose vehicle (SPV), a speculative news report suggests, but it’s unclear why the company would agree to such a move. In an entry posted late on Thursday night, a consumer forum site said it had spoken to unnamed sources – the website didn’t

































