MultiChoice Group made its market debut in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning as a JSE Top40 company with a market capitalisation of about R44-billion shortly after 9am.

A wearable smartphone with a flexible display that wraps around the wearer’s wrist has become the latest flexible device to appear at the Mobile World Congress technology show in Barcelona.

With South Africa’s state electricity utility in dire financial straits and straining to meet demand, the government has reverted to courting independent renewable energy producers to help power the economy.

The US government and Huawei Technologies are grappling for airtime in a war of words over network security at the phone industry’s biggest trade show.

Elon Musk’s Twitter habit is putting him in increasing legal jeopardy, with the Tesla CEO facing millions of dollars in additional fines, tighter restrictions on his use of social media and even a possible bar on running the company, experts say.

Vodacom’s fees and the complex set of rules related to its implementation of Icasa’s data expiry regulations are hellishly confusing, are anti-consumer and ultimately represent an own goal by South Africa’s largest mobile operator.

Huge Group said on Tuesday that it has won an interdict in a legal dispute between two of its subsidiaries and Cell C, apparently preventing the mobile operator from terminating its services as planned at the end of this month.

Data-only network operator Rain said on Wednesday that it has become the first company in South Africa to launch a commercial 5G network.

King Goodwill Zwelithini is backing the launch of a new mobile virtual network operator in South Africa, which is expected to begin offering services by mid-2019.

Protest action hit the Cell C head office campus in Woodmead, Johannesburg on Tuesday as unionised workers picketed over bonuses.