Fibre-to-the-home start-up Vumatel has revealed plans to offer free, uncapped fibre broadband to 80 schools in its coverage areas this year at speeds of 1Gbit/s. The company has challenged other
Consumer price inflation has breached the upper limit of the South African Reserve Bank’s target range by accelerating to 6,2% year on year in January 2016. The consensus forecast for headline CPI, which includes the volatile food and
Expect load shedding 20 hours every day if South Africa doesn’t build 20GW of new power stations within a decade, a nuclear energy proponent warned on Tuesday. “If we don’t come up with a strategy to build 20GW of coal or 20GW of
Telkom and Broadband Infraco are in talks over “possible collaboration” as government moves to minimise duplication between state-owned enterprises. Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele said
Wi-Fi service provider AlwaysOn is hoping to bring Wi-Fi Internet to a bigger audience by allowing consumers to buy access using cash at Pick n Pay stores. Selected stores are now carrying prepaid data cards from AlwaysOn. Until now, consumers
MTN plans to compensate some of its one million customers who were hit by a network outage this week. The telecommunications operator said on Monday that it was experiencing connectivity issues that affected approximately one million voice
Digital payments business PayPal this week said it expects South Africans to spend more than R37bn online in 2016 as a high penetration of smartphones and cross-border shopping drive online spending. Mobile phones and tablets are expected
The economic crisis following President Jacob Zuma’s treasury debacle has finally brought about a convergence of government and business, former Nedbank chairman Reuel Khoza said on Tuesday
In order to cut government expenditure and save billions of rands, the size of the cabinet had to be reduced drastically, a tax expert from PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Tuesday. “To really
Durban has become the first city in South Africa to get a multi-site Internet exchange point. Internet exchange points allow Internet service providers to interconnect their networks so that users benefit from faster connections and more