SABC+ hit by outage ahead of FIFA World Cup
SABC+ has been hit by an outage in the minutes ahead of the first match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup between South Africa and Mexico on Thursday evening.
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Broadband | Capitec Connect | Cell C | Columns | Khumbudzo Ntshavheni | mobile virtual network operator (MVNO)
One of the dumbest ideas in South African telecoms history is back on the table
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has announced that his department was committed to finalising a policy direction on Wireless Open Access Networks.
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Capitec plans to offer home Internet connectivity — including fibre and satellite
Capitec Group CEO Graham Lee has revealed details about the bank’s strategy to offer home Internet services.
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Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) | Broadband | Electronic Communications Act (ECA) | elon musk | Starlink
Elon Musk calls for sanctions against South Africa due to racist laws
Billionaire Elon Musk said that if South Africa doesn’t change its super racist Apartheid 2.0 laws, the country must be sanctioned.
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Afrihost acquiring top South African connectivity and cloud provider
Afrihost has concluded a deal to acquire a majority stake in South Africa’s first vendor-neutral aggregator and major network backbone provider.
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Broadband | Clayson Monyela | Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) | elon musk | ICASA | satellite internet
Elon Musk says Starlink was offered a pretend black owner “bribe” to launch in South Africa
In his latest criticism of South Africa’s black economic empowerment laws, the world’s richest man called a national government official a “f—ing racist” and “a–hole.”
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Mobile speeds higher than fixed broadband in South Africa
The Q1 2026 report from MyBroadband Insights showed that mobile speeds in South Africa are higher than those of fixed Internet connections.
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183-year-old village known as South Africa’s Book Town achieves 117 Mbps mobile speed
Richmond, a small Karoo town in the Northern Cape Province, achieved an average mobile speed of 117 Mbps on MTN’s network.
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Broadband | Broadband Infraco | DCDT | Department Of Basic Education | Department of Communications and Digital Technology | Development Bank of Southern Africa
State-owned broadband company denies charging poor schools R16,000 per month for ‘free Internet access’
Broadband Infraco has denied that it charges 599 rural schools in South Africa R16,000 per month for free Internet.