MTN’s plans to outsource a portion of its call centre facilities have been met with outrage by the Communications Workers Union, calling the decision a “jobs bloodbath”. On Wednesday, MTN announced
YeboYethu, Vodacom South Africa’s black economic empowerment scheme created in 2008, began trading on the empowerment segment in the telecommunications sector of the JSE’s main board on Thursday. YeboYethu
What more is there to say about MTN? It’s been an especially horrific 12 months for the company (and shareholders). But the group is sitting with a very large problem (to be fair, it has many others too): it is
Facebook collects less than the 5% of the US$500bn spent on advertising each year. To achieve the deepest, darkest dreams of Mark Zuckerberg, the company must become the first one that dominates both the kind
Capitec Bank is generally the cheapest bank for the needs of most people, despite strong competition from other banks, according to Solidarity’s 2016 Bank Charges Report. As a result of strong competition in the basic
The rand held steady at a new 10-month high on Thursday as it continued to benefit from offshore yield players, Brexit, mixed data from the US, liquidity and lack of interest because of the European summer vacation
The Democratic Alliance is proposing a deal that would allow it to run the country’s biggest city while giving a smaller rival control of its first municipality and locking the ruling ANC out of the management of the two cities
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele, through department acting director-general Joe Mjwara, has given communications regulator Icasa 15 days to produce a record of proceedings that led to its decision to push ahead with
The television industry will make a record number of shows in 2017, as streaming services Netflix, Amazon and Hulu propel a swell in production that’s creating an oversupply, veteran Fox executive John Landgraf said
The City of Johannesburg is calling on software developers to help improve processes of allocating and maintaining street addresses in rural and informal settlements. The “GeoJozi Challenge” encourages