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Maziv has committed R9-billion over five years to expand South Africa's fibre infrastructure, creating direct and indirect employment opportunities in a sector positioned to address youth unemployment. The company's open-access model lowers barriers for youth-owned internet service providers and enables entrepreneurs in underserved areas to launch digital businesses, while free 1 Gbps connectivity to schools, clinics and libraries passed by the network supports digital literacy and workforce readiness.
Seacom launches high-capacity Nairobi–Kampala route with automated resilienceSeacom has deployed a new terrestrial network route between Nairobi and Kampala, activating 1 Tb/s of capacity scalable to 30 Tb/s and delivering latency of seven milliseconds to Nairobi. The route uses automated switched optical network technology to reroute traffic in under 50 milliseconds during faults, dual border crossings at Malaba and Busia, and supports interfaces up to 400GE to serve enterprises, service providers and hyperscale customers across East Africa.
Telkom reports 27.5% profit surge and R559-million dividend to fiscusTelkom's revenue rose 1.4% to R44.48-billion and profit climbed 27.5% to R3.55-billion for the year ended March 31, with mobile subscribers surpassing 25-million and Openserve achieving full-year revenue growth for the first time in nine years. The company declared a final dividend of 270.10 cents per share, delivering R559-million to government through its 40.51% shareholding.
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By: Moses Mashisane In the modern global economy, the strength of a nation’s infrastructure is not only measured by its roads, ports, railways, and water supply systems, but also by the invisible...
For many South African businesses, protecting valuable stock is no longer only about locking it away. It is about knowing who accessed it, when they accessed it, whether the right process was...
Seacom has launched new high-capacity terrestrial network route between Nairobi and Kampala, upgrading a long-established corridor into a modern, high-capacity backbone designed to support growing...
By: Junaid Kleinschmidt – Intelligence lead and Ntsako Baloyi – Data & AI lead for Accenture, South Africa Within the South African business community, cloud adoption has moved well beyond early...
Telecommunications and ICT giants MTN Zambia and Huawei completed the world's first commercial deployment of the new five-band LampSite solution at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre,...
Core enterprise systems have become economic infrastructure across various sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, retail and manufacturing, with enterprise resource planning,...
JSE-listed Telkom on Wednesday said it expects to report a double-digit increase in earnings from its continuing operations for the year ended March 31. Basic earnings per share (BEPS) and headline...
By Adheesh Ori – Customer and Growth lead for Consumer Goods & Services, Retail and Automotive at Accenture Song and Rajesh Duvooru – Commercial Account Director for Consumer Goods & Services at...
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday emphasised that transforming investment pledges into large-scale growth and job creation takes time, noting that achieving the National Development Plan's target...
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has kicked off the initiation of the Via Africa submarine cable project, a major new Europe–Africa submarine cable project that will connect Europe to Africa...
Telecommunications firm MTN is commercialising a suite of AI-driven Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions for the agricultural sector, while identifying private network infrastructure as an important...
Telecommunications company Vodacom Group on Tuesday expects double-digit increases in earnings for the year ended March 31. In a trading update, the group said that the strong results are expected...
Theft, vandalism and electricity outages continue to weigh on South Africa’s telecommunications sector, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) latest ‘State of the...
A new research report published by telecommunications group Vodacom highlights Africa’s high vulnerability to climate change, with decarbonisation efforts hampered by critical energy challenges....
Telecommunications giant MTN Nigeria has partnered with information and communications technology provider Huawei to complete the world’s first commercial deployment of sub-1 GHz massive...
Telecommunications giant MTN continues its dominance in overall network performance during the first quarter of 2026. Consistently outperforming its competitors across the most important metrics in...
Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group has launched a solution aimed at delivering satellite connectivity to organisations based in remote communities in regions...
President Cyril Ramaphosa said billionaire Elon Musk could use equity-equivalence programmes to meet South Africa’s racial-equity rules and roll out his Starlink internet service locally, pointing...
As the war in the Middle East increasingly heightens the risk of an energy crisis amid pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, the Communications Risk Information Centre (COMRiC) on Wednesday warned the...
MTN Digital Infrastructure, the parent company of Bayobab, has announced that its CEO Mazen Mroué has been appointed to the board of the Global Leaders' Forum (GLF). GLF is a global network of...
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