The communications ministry declares new regulations, prohibiting the increase of mobile data prices and mobile number portability during the nationwide lockdown.
Opera and Worldreader look to keep young South African minds stimulated during the country’s lockdown.
The regulator and mobile operators look for ways to ease congestion and ensure good quality of broadband services during the nationwide lockdown.
The company reaches agreement with the Competition Commission to reduce its wholesale broadband prices to ISPs.
The companies join the fight against the coronavirus, zero-rating information portals being run by the Department of Health.
As more people are forced to work remotely, the video conferencing and online meetings platform witnesses a dramatic surge in downloads.
In the second half of 2019, Cell C showed encouraging signs in the context of a very difficult business to manage and a tough economic environment, say analysts.
The tech giant creates an educational fund to help edtech organisations provide online learning opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With more urgent, immediate pandemic priorities on the table, ICASA is yet to finalise its plans to auction spectrum and license the WOAN.
The competition watchdog says there is no agreement between itself and MTN, saying the operator’s data price reduction proposal was a “unilateral commercial response”.
The operator declares a loss of R3.94 billion for the year ended December, compared to a R7.36 billion loss in 2018.