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Afrihost will next month launch what looks very much like a fully fledged mobile virtual network operator on MTN’s infrastructure, providing users with voice minutes, SMS and data on a prepaid and month-to-month contract basis. The Internet service provider’s CEO, Gian Visser, told an

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MTN-controlled Internet service provider Afrihost has begun moving its digital subscriber line Internet clients onto a new network it believes will offering superior performance. The new network aggregates upstream bandwidth from a number of providers and has been

It’s fair to say that MTN’s purchase of Internet service provider Afrihost in late 2014 caught most of the industry by surprise. Not because MTN paid more than R400m for half of the business (which no one knew at the time), but because this meant MTN suddenly owned a consumer ISP

RSAWeb has become the latest Internet service provider to offer discounted 3G and 4G/LTE mobile broadband, offering data from R58/month for 1GB and going up to R999/month for 20GB

In the latest episode of South Africa’s weekly technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Google’s big restructuring and the creation of Alphabet. Also this week, they discuss the Forbes list of the

Afrihost is in talks with alternative providers of wholesale data because MTN is not prepared to continue providing data to the Internet service provider, which it bought in 2014, at below cost. “Let me

Telkom will open its telecommunications exchanges to Internet service providers using an open-access model in an effort to stimulate demand for fixed-line broadband in South Africa. “To further stimulate access to broadband, we will make making around

Internet service providers have done a commendable job of bringing down the cost of fixed-line broadband in South Africa. Although the actual connection fees to Telkom remain high (thanks to Telkom’s monopoly over the “last mile” into homes), the price of uncapped and

MTN has disclosed for the first time how much it paid to acquire Afrihost, and it’s not quite as high as earlier reports suggested. The mobile operator said on Wednesday in its annual financial results that it shelled out R408m to acquire 50% (plus one share) of the Internet