Afrihost, which earlier this year introduced aggressively priced mobile broadband offerings in partnership with network operator MTN, has effectively cut the price of mobile data in half until the end of February next year. The move appears to be a reaction to MWeb’s

Weekend newspaper circulation fell by almost 7,5% in the past year, according to an Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) report released on Wednesday. Combined circulation fell from 2,34m copies from July to September last year

Datatec has named Gary Bullard as the new CEO of subsidiary Logicalis Group following the retirement of Ian Cook, who has been appointed as nonexecutive chairman. According to Datatec, Bullard has 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry. In his most recent

Internet service provider MWeb has taken Telkom to court, demanding that a 6c/minute “transit” charge for calls carried from the telecommunications operator’s fixed-line network and onto its mobile network is in breach of an interconnection agreement signed between the parties

South Africa is slipping behind some other African markets in providing mobile broadband, Tom Allen, the chief operating officer of Smile Telecommunications, the telecoms operator founded six years ago by former MTN executive Irene Charnley, warned on Wednesday

Vodacom and WirelessG, which had been warring in the courts, appear to have buried the hatchet. The two parties said in a joint statement on Wednesday that WirelessG, a specialist Wi-Fi provider, had been appointed as the “exclusive provider of Wi-Fi data products to

MTN Mobile Money users will soon be able to make face-to-face and online transactions wherever Visa is accepted, MTN said on Wednesday. As part of the agreement, MTN customers’ devices will be able to pay using their MTN Mobile Money account in stores with

Judgment in the multimillion-rand case against Vodacom by former employee Nkosana Makate has been reserved, it was reported on Wednesday. Lawyers representing both parties concluded their closing arguments in the high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday

Independent data centre operator Teraco has begun work on a third facility, located at Great Westerford near Newlands in Cape Town, the company said on Wednesday. The new data centre is Teraco’s second in Cape Town. It opened another facility in the city’s

Nedbank has added functionality to its smartphone banking application that allows blind people and those with visual impairments to use the software. The bank’s technology divisional executive, Glenn Smith, says the app offers the same experience it does to a person with good