250 MTN South Africa has come out tops in independent network ratings agency OpenSignal’s latest mobile experience report, beating its rivals in a number of categories including “download speed”, “5G availability” and…
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Mouton Foundation launches R7.2-billion Curro take-private
155 The Jannie Mouton Foundation has made a R7.2-billion take-private offer to acquire all the issued shares of private schools group Curro Holdings, pitching the deal as both a premium for investors…
Fingerprints, facial scans now mandatory for Sassa grants
133 Social grants agency Sassa will introduce mandatory biometric enrolment for beneficiaries at its offices from 1 September. Until now the system has only applied to applicants for the Social Relief of…
DFA claims ‘world first’ 1.6Tbit/s fibre trial in South Africa
122 Maziv subsidiary Dark Fibre Africa has quadrupled the capacity achieved in an earlier test, transmitting 1.6Tbit/s on a single wavelength over a 40km stretch of its core network between Isando and…
Apple to launch iPhone 17 line-up on 9 September
128 Renders suggest this is the new iPhone 17 Pro, which is said to include a new orange colourway Apple will host its annual iPhone event on 9 September, where the company…
Cell C comeback supercharges Blue Label
162 JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has taken a decisive step in its troubled, long-running association with Cell C, reversing a multibillion-rand impairment previously recognised against its stake in the mobile operator. The…
Why modernising while migrating to the cloud is critical
135 If I had a penny for every company migrating to the cloud, I’d be rich. I’d be wealthy if the pennies were for every migration that had its cloud costs explode…
TCS | Maziv goes massive: CEO Dietlof Mare on Vumatel’s big roll-out plans
193 Maziv, the company that owns Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, plans to spend R12-billion over the next five years as its ramps its deployment of fibre infrastructure across South Africa. Poised…
Standard Bank rolls out next-gen virtual credit card
214 Standard Bank on Tuesday launched a new virtual credit card with “advanced security features” that it said it has so much confidence in that it has made a 100% credit fraud…
Innovation or collapse: South Africa’s dangerous addiction to the past
192 The author, Zero Carbon Charge founder Joubert Roux Driving forward while staring into the rearview mirror is not only reckless, it is a surefire way to crash. Yet this is exactly…