South Africans are increasingly adopting online shopping as the Christmas rush puts pressure on retailers to generate a healthy bottom line in a tough economic environment. Despite fears of credit card fraud as a significant barrier to e-commerce, data from

MTN has decided to take the legal route to challenge a US$3,9bn fine imposed on it by the Nigerian Communications Commission. This is after it exhausted all other options to have the fine reduced, it said in a statement to shareholders on the JSE’s stock

South Africa’s MTN Group has secured two important licences in West Africa, one in Ghana and the other in Côte d’Ivoire, at a combined cost of R3,5bn.
The group said it has secured a 15-year 4G/LTE licence in the 800MHz “digital dividend” spectrum band in Ghana for a purchase

Power utility Eskom said on Thursday that unit 2 at the Koeberg nuclear power station has been returned to service and is currently operating at full load. The unit had been shut down for a scheduled outage on 31 August as part of Eskom’s overall

By launching two new Nexus devices, Google has adopted a strategy similar to those of Microsoft with the Lumia 950/950XL and Apple with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. However, a major difference

The South African Post Office has begun its programme to deliver the first set-top boxes as the country moves towards digital terrestrial television. The set-top boxes will be delivered to households in the Northern Cape as part of a national roll-out to provide the

One of South Africa’s most prominent upmarket estates, Dainfern, north of Fourways in Johannesburg, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the installation of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband to 1 236 houses in the area. The move comes after Telkom

Vodacom has rejected an attempt to attach its assets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid a legal dispute. The case relates to Vodacom DRC being sued over a facilitation fee agreement. “I have received the court order

Communications minister Faith Muthambi was due to install the first batch of government-subsidised set-top boxes in Keimoes in the Northern Cape on Thursday. Keimoes is located within the Square Kilometre Array area, where the world’s largest

Load shedding and xenophobia topped the most trending search terms on Google by South Africans in 2015. The search engine giant has published its annual Zeitgeist lists, a look at the past year “through the collect eyes of the world on the