Vodacom and MTN are ripping off data customers, the Competition Commission says. Here's why it thinks they stay anyway.

The Competition Commission blames factors that include "poor decisions" by customers of...

Vandalism of South Africa's cellphone network nearly doubles during load shedding

Eskom implemented stage 2 loadshedding on Wednesday - the first time since March.

Standard Bank has been banned from selling data plans using an ‘ambiguous’ advertisement with 'complicated mathematical reasoning'

An advertising regulator says the complex math needed to understand Standard Bank's data...

A South African earning minimum wage works 5.4 hours to earn 1GB of data – here’s how that compares to the rest of the world

In Monaco people only have to work 0.10 hours to afford one GB of data.

A new plan says government intervention can make data 25% cheaper within three years – here’s why that is quite optimistic

Mobile operators have long blamed the lack of spectrum for high data prices.

Vodacom is pulling in 67,000 customers a day in South Africa as its prices fall – and it says data will keep getting cheaper

Vodcom reported 608,000 new customers on its network in its most recent quarter, while...

MTN prepaid users can get 1GB free data a month – and the catch only comes in month four

Air Mobile from Afrihost is giving away free data as part of a launch promotion, and the...

MTN has abandoned plans to opt all its users into a 40c 1MB “bundle” from this week

MTN created a one-megabyte "bundle" that would "auto-renew" – and told millions of...