Telkom customers are no longer able to force their phones to roam away from their home network after the telecommunications operator switched roaming partners from MTN to Vodacom at the end of June.

Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore, whose push into mobile payments spurred a five-fold increase in the Kenyan company’s value, died after a battle with cancer. He was 61.

More and more critics want to dismember Facebook. This solution would be both inappropriate and ineffective.

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Few people bother to read the lengthy legal documents when signing a new cellular contract, opening a bank account or signing up for a new e-mail address. They should.

Government is putting the final touches on a R230-billion bailout package intended to get its debt-stricken state power utility back on track. Except it won’t be nearly enough.

Japan’s NTT Corp has launched NTT Ltd following the merger of NTT Communications, Dimension Data and NTT Security into a single, $11-billion business. It will be headquartered in London and led by Jason Goodall.

Analysts have long criticised Telkom since its entry into the mobile market in October 2010, which hasn’t come cheap. But it’s become the company’s saving grace.

US President Donald Trump said he eased restrictions on China’s most prominent technology company as part of a trade truce with Beijing.

Thinking of jumping into bitcoin? If this week’s boom and bust trading didn’t scare you away, you might want to do so on a Saturday or Sunday.