South Africa’s telecommunications industry is on the cusp of its next wave of growth, thanks to the growing uptake by businesses and consumers of bandwidth-intensive applications such as cloud services and Internet streaming. Fast-changing user behaviour
While there’s been an outsize (and bizarre) outcry about First National Bank’s decision to close somewhere between 25 and 40 branches in a round of “optimisation”, the country’s big four retail banks have been steadily cutting the number of branches for years
Eskom is not the reason why energy regulator Nersa’s report on tariff hikes has not been released to the public, according to the utility’s spokesman, Khulu Phasiwe. Phasiwe said Nersa
Concerns are growing in the telecommunications industry that government plans to abandon the nearly universal model of auctioning off precious radio frequency spectrum to private-sector operators, instead allocating it to a single wholesale provider in which
The launch this week of a smaller iPhone and a new iPad “underlines the extent to which Apple has lost the innovative edge”, according to a senior technology analyst. The new 4-inch iPhone SE, in particular, showed that Apple had lost the innovative
“Even that family, if people feel it has to be brought to book, structures must do that, the officials must call them and talk to them and give them a marching order not through shouting outside because all of us in the NEC [African National Congress National
MTN on Thursday advised shareholders not to make decisions based on press reports after the telecommunications group’s shares were knocked down by more than 10% on speculation that its fine in Nigeria could be hiked to R240bn. The shares were also knocked
When you mention virtual reality (VR), most people’s thoughts turn to videogames. Indeed, Sony has just announced its new Playstation VR headset. But VR isn’t just about gaming. There are many other interesting and exciting uses for it. Education
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised black business that government will spend billions on broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) in the coming years. “We are going to intensify BBBEE. We are going to sharpen our teeth and
Inflation in South Africa could peak at 8,1% in December this year and only dip below the Reserve Bank’s upper target band of 6% again in December 2017, emerging markets economist Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura said on Wednesday
