The Orange Online Store, a source of lower-cost handsets free of operator bloatware, has been shut down in South Africa — and worldwide. South African visitors to the online store, operated by the French
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Apple has hitched itself to music celebrities to pitch Apple Music, the US$10/month (South Africa: R59,99/month) digital service launched a year ago. There was the very public catering to Taylor Swift. Apple broke out its
Inside a packed Vodafone Group store in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, a group of the city’s tech-savvy students wait in line for wireless modems they hope will transform their ability to surf the Internet. They don’t even
Africa’s start-ups are seizing an opportunity they say Google and Apple have missed – making apps for non-smartphones. In a region where the average customer doesn’t own a smartphone or a bank card, hundreds of millions
MTN could be forced to cough up as much as R1,5bn to Cameroonian authorities after a special anti-corruption commission, known as Conac, found that the operator, along with rival Orange, owed nearly R2,8bn in taxes and royalties to the government
Blue Label Telecoms is acquiring 35% of Cell C, injecting R4bn in new capital as part of a major restructuring of the telecommunications operator that will lead to current controlling shareholder
Alcatel-Lucent has announced it is about to begin construction of the Africa Coast to Europe submarine cable’s second phase, which will connect South Africa to São Tomé and Príncipe and provide an alternative route to Europe to the West Africa Cable System
It’s a veritable feast for couch potatoes – or at least those with access to affordable and fast broadband. In the space of just a few months, almost half a dozen new video-on-demand players have been launched in South Africa, promising an alternative to satellite pay
MTN has provided more details about its plans to zero-rate its FrontRow video-on-demand offering. The decision means it won’t charge users of its mobile network for the data they consume while watching
A subsidiary of French telecommunications company Orange plans to launch its own video-on-demand (VOD) offering in South Africa next year. Orange Horizons currently operates a retail business in South Africa where it sells smartphones and devices via its local