Eight thousand homes and businesses in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital city, now have access to a fibre broadband service offering speeds of up to 100Mbit/s. CEC Liquid Telecommunications intends offering uncapped access to the Internet to Zambian

Despite its small, dispersed population, the desert nation of Namibia is trumping its neighbour, South Africa, when it comes to the cost of mobile broadband, a new research report says. “The dynamic bundling observable in other countries such as Namibia has not yet

Any doubt that lower wholesale call termination rates have led to a sharp decline in retail mobile tariffs in South Africa should be put to rest, new research shows. South Africans have benefited directly from a reduction in termination rates – the fees telecommunications

“The Internet is forever.” So goes a saying regarding the impossibility of removing material – such as stolen photographs – permanently from the Web. Yet, paradoxically, the vast and growing digital sphere faces enormous losses. Google has been criticised

The ZA Tech Show is back up and running in earnest and this week. Brett Haggard and Steven Ambrose gather in the studio for a discussion about wearable technology and fitness trackers, the new Fitbit Charge, the benefits and drawbacks of tracking and monitoring

After too long off the mic and several false starts, the ZA Tech Show resumes this week. Brett Haggard and Andy Hadfield (who’s now plying his entrepreneurial prowess at Forgood) talk about why there’s been a delay in the show coming out. More importantly, they dive

A motion for a full parliamentary probe into the role of security services in the removal of Electronic Freedom Fighters MPs from parliament on 12 February, and the jamming of the cellphone signal, was tabled in the national assembly on Tuesday. DA MP David Maynier called

The office of Gauteng premier David Makhura on Tuesday denied a report in the Sowetan stating that Makhura had announced the e-tolling system in the province would be scrapped. “The story is completely wrong,” said Makhura’s spokesman, Thabo Masebe

Samsung, wounded by Apple in the smartphone wars, will begin its fightback this Sunday when it takes the wraps off the latest flagship device in its Galaxy S line-up – and thanks to American mobile operator T-Mobile, we now have a good idea what the

Near-field communication has been touted as the next big thing for years. It promises tap-and-go transactions that will revolutionise mobile payments. With Apple Pay taking centre stage, many are proclaiming 2015 the year that NFC mobile payments