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AFRICAN businesses must make the most of fifth-generation technology (5G) even though this network is in its infancy stage across the continent. ( read original story …)

With 1.8 billion 5G connections expected globally by 2025, this mobile network technology is becoming increasingly important. In the same period, it … ( read original story …)

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published an application from Telkom for extra capacity for its mobile network, MyBroadband reported. Telkom is asking for another … ( read original story …)

Market logic suggests that consumers will benefit in this race to the bottom, but it is worth noting that many of these packages shackle consumers with Fair Usage Policies (FUPs) and restrictions on … ( read original story …)

This was disclosed at the12th yearly Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) held in Dubai recently. Huawei’s Rotating Chairman Ken Hu, who disclosed this at the forum, stressed the need for the global … ( read original story …)

Telkom has applied to Icasa for extra network capacity in the same frequency band it uses for its 4G network — and has also offered to give a chunk of spectrum back. ( read original story …)

Yoco wants to deepen its market presence in South Africa and expand into Africa and the Middle East (Mesa) region over the next two years, says Yoco vice-president for commercial, Matthew Brownell. ( read original story …)

Green ICT for Green Development, Aaron Jiang, President of Huawei’s SingleRAN Product Line, delivered a keynote speech titled … ( read original story …)

New research from Ookla shows that MTN is South Africa’s fastest mobile network by some margin, followed by Vodacom and Telkom. ( read original story …)

MTN Business is offering an awesome deal to take care of your work-from-home needs – a whopping 500GB of data for just R599 per month. The MTN Business Broadband Fixed-LTE package offers great speeds … ( read original story …)

The Speedtest Global Index had in July 2021indicated that global mean of download speeds improved over the last 12 months … ( read original story …)

South Africa’s two biggest mobile operators, MTN and Vodacom, have joined number three Telkom in a lawsuit to stop the regulator withdrawing temporary frequency spectrum assigned at the start of the … ( read original story …)