South Africa’s cash-strapped power utility is “a threat” to the nation’s investment strategy, finance minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Thursday. The government plans to offer incentives to lure $100-billion
The first transatlantic broadband submarine cable in the southern hemisphere, the South Atlantic Cable System, will begin carrying its first commercial traffic within the next three months, providing a more
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Angola Cables CEO António Nunes about the Luanda-based company’s undersea cable projects, which include building a new subsea cable, called Sacs
Mobile operator Cell C has appointed Junaid Munshi as its new chief commercial officer. Munshi, who has extensive experience in South Africa’s telecommunications industry, takes on the role from 2 July
Huawei Technologies has lately become a prominent target for US factions seeking to raise alarms over alleged Chinese espionage and technology theft. Now Huawei’s striking back. Eric Xu, the company’s current
Microsoft agreed to pay US$7.50-billion for GitHub earlier in June, but it wasn’t the only interested party. Google was in the running too, according to Diane Greene, head of the company’s cloud arm. “I wouldn’t
When Chinese media company StarTimes entered Ivory Coast’s pay-TV market two years ago, Canal+ appeared to take notice. A few months later, the unit of France’s Vivendi cut the cost of its decoder by a third. StarTimes has
Apple and Samsung Electronics have reached a settlement in their US patents battle, putting an end to a seven-year fight over smartphone designs. The string of lawsuits started in 2011 when Apple sued Samsung for
EOH Holdings, the ICT firm that is splitting into two divisions, will consider spinning off one of the units and trading the shares separately. The Johannesburg-based company plans to lump its ICT businesses
South Africans want data prices to fall. Instead, it’s the shares of the big listed telecommunications companies that are tumbling. Share prices have come under significant downward pressure in recent