Two Uber customers who were intimidated by metered taxi drivers outside the Sandton Gautrain station on Monday had a warning for fellow fans of the app-based service. Shaken but not stirred

The South African government should not get involved in the high-speed mobile broadband spectrum market, warned an international body. “We don’t want a new monopoly. We’ve

South Africa’s adoption of digital terrestrial television (DTT) should be carefully evaluated and perhaps even dumped, says an industry insider. “Fundamentally, we need to be questioning why we’ve adopted this policy in

Former Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati has been appointed as the new CEO of MTN South Africa, a spokesman for the telecommunications operator said on Monday. Nyati, who was appointed as group head of MTN’s enterprise business in

The emergence of as many as two dozen rivals in the fibre-to-the-home broadband market is good for Telkom, good for consumers and good for the economy, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said at

Less than a week after the labour court ordered Telkom to suspend a section 189 retrenchment process, the company has decided to abandon that approach and has opted instead to offer voluntary

I love the cloud. To me it is a great solution to a problem that has been dogging computer users for decades: what to do with all the data? Raise your hand if you have lost a bunch of personal data because of a hard drive crash. Now keep it there if you can

Ahmad Farroukh is leaving as CEO of MTN South Africa to take up the top job at Saudi Arabia’s second largest telecommunications operator, Etihad Etisalat, which trades at Mobily. Farroukh, who has been CEO of MTN for the

Privately held telecommunications provider Vox Telecom has launched an uncapped voice product for consumers that have fibre-to-the-home broadband. The product provides unlimited calls to mobile phones as well as national and local

It seems that on a monthly basis we hear of a “revolution” in the mobile device industry, either from manufacturers touting the latest and greatest flagship smartphone or from analysts punting the