Communications regulator Icasa “failed in its statutory obligation” to promote competition in South Africa’s telecommunications industry when it approved the transfer of Neotel’s operating and spectrum licences to Vodacom, Cell C CEO
A major focus of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week was around advances in implementing 5G, the version of mobile wireless networks that will replace the current 4G. In a nutshell, 5G will bring massive improvements in data rates
Telkom has sought to play down a report published on Monday that suggested it plans to slash its workforce by more than 40% in the coming months. Bloomberg reported that Telkom wants to cut its workforce to
R731,88. That’s how much, including VAT, you’re going to have to fork out to get your hands on the credit card-sized computer, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, which has gone on sale in South Africa. Developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the Raspberry Pi 3
Vendor-neutral data centre operator Teraco has begun construction of a major expansion to its data centre in Isando, east of Johannesburg, in a move the company says will create the largest such facility in Africa. The new build, comprising
Last year was a particularly bad one for South African millionaires, according to the latest South Africa 2016 Wealth Report by New World Wealth. The number of these so-called high net worth individuals declined by 18% during 2015 – from 46 800 at the end of 2014
Standard Bank Research said the “rand sacrificed most of the gains it had made since the end of January”, which analysts on Monday said was due to a boiling point in politics involving President Jacob Zuma and finance minister Pravin Gordhan
Icasa met secretly and unlawfully with Vodacom to discuss the operator’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel, leading to a “reasonable suspicion of bias” against the communications regulator, the high court in Pretoria has found. In a damning judgment, handed down on Friday, Judge
Remember those big black disks with holes in the middle that used to be played on “turntables”? They’re not actually ancient history. This past year, worshippers at what novelist Michael Chabon calls “the Church of Vinyl” bought 9,2m records. And though
We’re back after a lengthy break, and we have a bumper episode lined up for your listening pleasure. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Net1 UEPS Technologies CEO Serge Belamant’s fake degree, the latest on MTN in Nigeria and government’s