ZTE, Intel partner on IoT innovation

ZTE and Intel have signed a strategic co-operation agreement to jointly establish an innovative lab for research and development of future key IoT technologies, including experimental verification, evaluation, and research and development of related technologies. Rose...

Crypto Valley Association forms blockchain group

Crypto Valley Association, the Swiss-based not-for-profit association supporting the development of blockchain and cryptographic-related technologies and businesses, has joined forces companies that include ConsenSys, UBS, PwC, Thomson Reuters, Luxoft, Canton of Zug,...

DTPS replies to FMF challenge

The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services has responded to an IT-Online article quoting the Free Market Foundation on ICT policy in South Africa: The article headlined “FMF Challenges Cwele on Policies” that was published on your website on 27 February...

Cell C in restructuring deal

Cell C has signed a restructuring agreement with its key lenders, majority bondholders and new equity investors, which will see the company reduce its debt to approximately R6-billion. The agreement sets out the framework and agrees the key principles by which the...

Service providers risk losing their customers

Accenture’s Dynamic Digital Consumers Survey revealed that if a global digital giant such as Google or Amazon launched an offer comparable to their mobile operator, 44% of respondents would leave their provider, forming a gloomy outlook for communications...

SA brands could understand customers better

A growing preference among customers to move through the buying journey in their own time using their own preferred channels has given brands a smaller window of time to engage with them. Sales and marketing teams need to work more closely together to better...