Communications regulator Icasa has gazetted the final regulations on the use of “innovation spectrum”, formally settling one of the most contested questions in South African spectrum policy. In terms of the newly published final regulations, the lower 6GHz band (5.925-6.425GHz) will be licence-exempt and available to wireless internet service providers (Wisps), Wi-Fi deployments, private networks…
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Microsoft and the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies have launched a solar-powered mobile digital lab at the Royal Bafokeng Institute to equip young people in the North West with digital and AI skills for the modern economy. (Image: Supplied) Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with Microsoft and SA’s Department of Communications…
South African e-health startup Mia Healthcare Technologies raised ZAR15 million, or about $920,000, to expand access to affordable dental and orthodontic care. The funding came from the Vumela Fund, which is managed by Edge Growth. Mia Healthcare said the investment will support its next phase of growth, including a wider national footprint, stronger manufacturing capacity…
Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub A reading of Vodacom Group’s 2026 financial results shows its home market is barely growing in customer terms, that what top-line growth there is leans heavily on price adjustments in February rather than volume growth, and profitability would have looked materially worse without a one-off accounting gain from the Maziv…
Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Airtel Africa on Friday delayed the planned public listing of its mobile money business to the second half of 2026 and forecast a near-term margin squeeze due to higher costs arising from the ongoing US-Israeli war against Iran. The war has triggered an unprecedented crunch in crude supplies from the Middle East and…
Capitec Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, Capitec Connect, more than doubled its net income contribution to R442-million in the year to 28 February 2026, as subscribers, data traffic and voice minutes all surged. The Cell C-hosted operator, which launched in late 2022, reported 1.5 million clients active in the past three months of the reporting…
Vox has taken every fixed broadband award in Opensignal’s latest South African benchmarking exercise, an outcome that puts a specialist internet service provider ahead of the country’s largest mobile operators on home connectivity. The comparison measured the performance of Herotel, Vodacom, Rain, MTN, Telkom and Vox across connections spanning fibre and fixed wireless access –…
Samsung invites skilled service centre SMEs in mobile device and/or consumer electronic repairs to join its EEIP initiative. Samsung South Africa, in partnership with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), is inviting black-owned small businesses in the service centre market to participate in its Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP). This follows last year’s…
Meta has officially introduced the ability for Instagram users to edit their comments, addressing a long-standing request from the platform’s community. Much like the direct message editing feature launched in 2024, the new tool provides a 15-minute window for users to correct typos, refine their tone, or add missing context to their posts. Read: SportyTV…
Ernst Fonternel, chief consumer officer, postpaid and home at MTN South Africa. (Image: Supplied) Pi, a digital network operator that offers mobile and home connectivity through a mobile and web-based platform, has entered South Africa’s telecommunications sector, offering customers “prepaid-like services” for a fixed, monthly instalment. According to a statement, the service operates on MTN’s…
