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South Africa's fixed-line infrastructure, compared with its neighbours and the world

Copper is being switched off and fibre doubled in a year — how South Africa's fixed networks, subsea cables and data centres compare with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the rest of the…Read more

How South Africa communicates: channels, users, value and who profits

Voice, SMS, WhatsApp, email and USSD compared — who uses each channel, what it is worth, where the margin sits for networks, and what discounts MVNOs and resellers get under each type of partner…Read more

Moving your numbers to cloud telephony, without the downtime

Porting a number sounds risky and mostly is not — provided the order of operations is right.Read more