The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has questioned whether the communications department and regulator Icasa are capable of bringing down what South Africans pay to communicate. In a statement on Monday, it asked whether lowering the cost to communicate is “still a government priority”. Data prices are falling, the industry body said, but the overall…
New Global Survey Finds Majority of VMware Users Are Choosing Alternative Paths for Cost Control, Roadmap Flexibility and Better Support Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™ and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced findings from the 2026 IT Virtualization Survey –…
Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes The R20.8-million Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes spent on the company’s shares in September sits on top of a far larger holding he did not pay for: 7.65 million shares, worth about R203-million at the R26.50 listing price, allocated to him by the operator’s largest shareholder when it listed on…
President Ntuli, MD of Hewlett Packard Enterprise South Africa. The adoption of agentic AI carries hidden costs that could become difficult for CFOs, CIOs and boards to measure and control, warns President Ntuli, MD of Hewlett Packard Enterprise South Africa. A single prompt or automated workflow can trigger multiple tokens, compute demands, infrastructure pressure and…
Apple on Wednesday unveiled a foldable called iPhone Duo, introducing the biggest change in years in the company’s flagship product. The US$1 999 starting price for the iPhone Duo means it will could cost north of R50 000 when it is launched in South Africa. TechCentral has calculated this estimate based on the non-discounted price of…
Eskom reported a R30.3-billion profit for the year to 31 March, but a larger sum than that never reached the income statement at all. Outgoing group chief financial officer Calib Cassim set out the arithmetic at Monday’s results presentation. Eskom, he said, lost 13.1TWh of electricity to theft during the year – power that was…
While tariffs can end up hitting consumers in the pocket, there are other impacts on households. Import taxes can complicate trade for businesses that have cross-border supply. As well as the higher costs, the uncertainty created by the trade war could put off investment plans and stunt job creation. Saunders suggests the biggest impact on…
[Daily Maverick] Falling EU fertility, an ageing workforce and cautious regulation threaten Europe’s competitiveness; policymakers must balance family policy, skilled immigration and AI-led automation to sustain prosperity.
Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha Herotel intends to sell Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellite broadband at prices that closely track its existing fibre packages, and will carry the currency risk on terminals landed in South Africa, CEO Van Zyl Botha has told the TechCentral Show podcast. It is the clearest signal yet on what Evry will…
Fresh details from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shed new light on OpenAI’s upcoming entry into consumer hardware following initial reports about its smart speaker development. Read: SpaceX shares plunge after first earnings release since IPO Sources indicate the inaugural device will feature a battery-powered, ring-shaped design roughly the size of a hockey puck, built specifically for…
