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    High data prices? Don’t blame Vodacom and MTN

    By Martin van Staden17 June 2020

    Why does the narrative remain that some “duopoly” between Vodacom and MTN is the source of South Africa’s relatively high data prices? It’s not true. By Martin van Staden.

    AWS using ‘hardball’ restraints to stop employees joining rivals

    By Agency Staff17 June 2020

    Amazon.com is by far the biggest company in cloud computing. But a new lawsuit shows the extent to which Amazon, which rarely discusses the competition in public, sees Google as a threat.

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    One week before Apple’s annual developer conference, the financial heart of its App Store is under renewed attack from antitrust regulators and exasperated developers.

    Here come the cheap(er) 5G smartphones

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    To fly again, SAA will need R26.7-billion: administrators

    By Agency Staff17 June 2020

    South African Airways’ administrators proposed the government put up at least R26.7-billion to rescue the carrier after years of losses and the grounding of commercial passenger flights.

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