It’s taken nearly eight years, but at last we have a sequel to Zack Snyder’s 300, just in case anyone was asking for such a thing. Co-written and produced by Snyder, and directed by green hand Noam Murro, 300: Rise of an Empire is a timid and forgettable follow-up

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Just a day after cautioning shareholders that it was in talks with MTN South Africa, Telkom has signed a heads of agreement with the company in terms of which MTN will take over financial and operational responsibility for the roll-out and operation of its radio access network. In addition, each company will be able to

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Cell C must withdraw a radio advertisement that takes aim at rival MTN and its decision to take communications regulator Icasa to court over its final regulations on call termination rates. Cell C began flighting the ad on 20 February, soon after

The Democratic Alliance is demanding that R31m in bonuses paid to Eskom “directors” be “returned” to national treasury following Thursday’s rolling blackouts, the first since 2008’s power crisis. The DA says it wants the money paid back so that it can be used to buy generators for hospitals and emergency

SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala was nominated by her board to act as group CEO of the public broadcaster shortly after Lulama Mokhobo resigned from the post, but the communications minister was not having any of it. Tshabalala’s nomination to the acting post had to be approved

JSE-listed technology company Mustek has won a contract to supply R128m worth of signalling and telecommunications equipment developed by China’s Huawei to Zambia Railways. Mustek will supply the equipment to a consortium made up of Huawei International, Bombardier Transportation and Zambian

Eskom’s power emergency has been lifted, the power utility said on its Twitter account. “Urgent Notice #Eskom lifted the power emergency at 10pm. Power has been restored in all areas,” it tweeted on Thursday night. On Friday around 7.30am, however, the Eskom load shedding website still bore the warning

“No options are off the table” as MTN South Africa looks to take an axe to high channel distribution costs. That’s according to the operator’s CEO, Zunaid Bulbulia, who says acquiring independent cellular service providers and cutting margins offered to the

Telkom has confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in South Africa’s telecommunications industry: that it is in talks with mobile operator MTN about a deal involving its loss-making mobile division. It confirmed to shareholders by way of a statement on the JSE’s Sens