A South African website and app has attracted more than 15 000 users since its launch in May last year, bringing neighbourhoods closer together in the process. OurHood, founded by Bruce Good and
Vodacom is in the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband race against equally well-funded rivals to win it, not to come second, chief officer Vuyani Jarana said on Wednesday. Jarana, who heads Vodacom Business
Vodacom its still confident that its R7bn acquisition of Neotel will go ahead, despite a protracted investigation by the Competition Tribunal and allegations of impropriety by Neotel executives over
South Africa’s business confidence declined further in the third quarter of 2015, raising fears of a looming recession. After falling by six points in the second quarter, the RMB/BER Business Confidence Index (BCI) fell by a further five to 38 points in the third quarter of 2015, the
Cell C and Vodacom are both pumping hundreds of millions of rand into their networks in the Western Cape to enhance coverage to the province’s residents. Cell C said on Wednesday that it intends
Hong Kong-based telecommunications company PCCW is planning to launch a video-on-demand service, possibly as early as next week, that will challenge the recently launched ShowMax
Global Internet payments platform PayPal will now allow South African consumers to return goods purchased using the service, for free. The launch of the PayPal Refunded Return service follows the
Smile Telecoms, the wireless broadband communications company founded by former MTN executive Irene Charnley, has raised US$365m (R5bn) in new debt and equity financing to expand its coverage in Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria and establish its first presence in the
All Western Cape schools will have free, high-speed access to the Internet by the end of 2016, the province’s premier, Helen Zille, said on Tuesday. Zille said the plan is to use the access to offer e-learning to pupils to improve both literacy and numeracy and
The South African Post Office and its CEO Christopher Hlekane have agreed to part ways, almost a year after he went on “special extended leave” amid a prolonged strike. Post Office chairman Simo Lushaba said in a statement on Tuesday that the contract