Competition between mobile operators is keeping data prices down. MTN South Africa has extended its cut-price data tariffs for prepaid and contract customers until the end of September.
MTN has also introduced a further price reduction on its 500MB Internet bundle, reducing it from R119 to R99. The

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee was meant to hear a complaint laid against Screamer Telecoms this week but has had to postpone the matter until September because its star witness, Sebastian Meyer, who investigated

Anyone who has attended any sort of telecommunications-related presentation in the past couple of years will have come across the World Bank’s finding that a 10% increase in a nation’s broadband penetration equates to a 1,4% increase in GDP in low- and middle-income economies. That statistic makes a

Copper theft decreased in May, the South African Chamber of Commerce of Industry (Sacci) said on Tuesday. According to the Sacci Copper Theft Barometer, copper worth R9m was stolen in May, compared to R10m in April. This was the lowest level since the barometer’s inception, and was a clear indication that

Core Group, the company that distributes Apple products in South Africa, has revealed recommended retail prices for the latest generation of MacBook Air ultraportable notebooks. At the same time, Sony has revealed prices for its latest Vaio models, which compete directly with the Air

The South African arm of German technology services company T-Systems has won a R67,5m contract from the department of water affairs to manage and modernise the SAP enterprise resource planning applications the department uses. The contract term is three years and the

With location-based services growing in popularity, the race to provide location solutions for developing markets that don’t require users to enter full address details is hotting up. MyDoorHandle is a Cape Town-based start-up looking to stake its claim. Started by Steven Ellis, 38, and

Naspers’s decision, 12 years ago, to buy a stake in Chinese instant-messaging, entertainment and online advertising company Tencent continues to pay big dividends for the South African-headquartered media and technology group. Financial results published on Tuesday

Dave Greenway and Christo van Gemert join Brett Haggard this week for a recap on the goings-on in the technology industry over the past week. Topics of discussion include

The department of communications is “outraged” by a press ombudsman ruling that cleared the Sunday Times of violations of the South African press code and will appeal the decision, communications minister Dina Pule’s spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni, said on Monday. On Saturday, press ombudsman