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Telkom has signalled it’s ready for a serious fight with its bigger rivals, this week taking the wraps off aggressively priced, 4G/LTE data-led mobile packages for both prepaid and contract customers that look set to have its bigger rivals

Twenty gigabytes of mobile 4G/LTE data a month, free on-network calls, 1 500 minutes of free calls to other networks, zero-rated WhatsApp and Viber, free SMSes, and free and unlimited Wi-Fi access at

Zimbabwe’s IT minister has told the country’s social media users that their phones can be tracked if they spread messages that President Robert Mugabe’s government deems abusive. In what appeared to be a

Organisers and campaigners in Zimbabwe have advised citizens to tap social media to drum up support for protests against President Robert Mugabe until he steps down. The organisers and campaigners are advising citizens to keep

Zimbabwe’s telecommunications regulator has threatened to disconnect mobile subscribers it says are spreading information via WhatsApp about the protests that have rocked the country. Zimbabwe is battling to contain public outrage over economic

Instant messaging app WhatsApp experienced downtime on mobile networks in Zimbabwe on Wednesday as protest action started taking root. Zimbabweans woke up to no WhatsApp connectivity through their mobile phones on Wednesday, a rare occurrence in

Instant messaging application WhatsApp was unavailable in Zimbabwe on Wednesday amid fears that the government was clamping down on social media as the economically and politically troubled Southern African country faced a day of national protest

Allow me to venture a theory… The reason out-of-bundle mobile data rates are (largely) still R2/MB is to help shore up operators’ cratering voice revenue. R2 is an arbitrary number, a relic from over a decade ago, but it’s a stubborn

The cellular industry may soon become the victim of the next wave of disruptive technology, much as this industry virtually destroyed traditional fixed-line telephony in the late 1990s. This may happen sooner than many think