Strive Masiyiwa has become an expert at walking the fine line between business and politics. He had to. The man once picked by Time magazine as one of its 15 “global influentials” – he regularly rubs shoulders with Nelson Mandela and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in his ch...
A report released this week claimed the global ICT sector was showing signs of recovery, with investments in national broadband network plans forming a central component of government efforts to stimulate growth, reports IT News.
The report, prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-...
eBay wants to spin off telephony service Skype into a separate publicly traded company, but something’s standing in the way: Skype’s founders are threatening to take back some of the technology in the midst of a licensing dispute.
The auction giant’s solution, accordin...
Large parts of West Africa are struggling to get back online following damage to an undersea cable.
The fault has caused severe problems in Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria.
The blackout is thought to have been caused by damage to the SAT-3 cable which runs from Portugal and Spain ...
Three of Europe’s biggest telecoms firms have reported falling profits, but the results came in ahead of analysts’ expectations.
Spain’s Telefonica saw second-quarter net profits drop 6% to 1.93bn euros (£1.65bn), while BT’s pre-tax profits fell 45% to £272m in t...