Businesses in Cape Town’s central business district can now access the city’s fibre network, with service provider RSAWeb the first to offer access. RSAWeb is offering connections of between 25Mbit/s and 1Gbit/s using the city’s fibre infrastructure and hopes that once businesses have embraced the
Author: Craig Wilson
Telkom’s decision to phase out the well-known 8ta trademark and to rename its consumer cellular business Telkom Mobile could hurt the brand given that the telecommunications operator has a tarnished reputation among many consumers. In
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) wants to become the first port of call for anyone looking for information on South Africa’s information and communication technology sector. It hopes that making this information
Each year around this time, Barcelona plays host to the Mobile World Congress, the biggest annual event for the world’s mobile communications industry. In addition to usual product announcement from many of the big-name manufacturers, the buzz this year was around mobile
The Zik headphones from Parrot are unabashedly attention grabbing. Combining chrome, matt-black plastic and leather, they’re simply beautiful. Understated design, invisible touch controls, superb noise cancelling and a number of ingenious features make them highly covetable, even with
Government wants to begin taxing virtual goods sold online by foreign companies, including e-books and downloaded music. These companies should be required to register as value-added tax (VAT) vendors, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said in his national budget speech in parliament
Mobile operator Cell C is allegedly giving Blue Label Telecoms-owned wireless application service providers (Wasps) preferential rates and services when they use its network, a move that has angered rival service providers. BulkSMS MD Pieter Streicher says the
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has hinted that on-network calling plans such as the one recently launched by Vodacom could be anticompetitive and may require regulatory intervention. Big operators often take advantage of their
After repeated delays, communications minister Dina Pule says the options for Telkom’s future are being finalised in consultation with the telecommunications operator’s board. Pule put options to cabinet last year but these were returned following recent board changes that saw Jabu
Vodacom has launched a new “global data service platform” (GDSP) for its machine-to-machine (M2M) communications business, allowing consumers to control Sim-based devices remotely from anywhere in the world. Tony Smallwood, executive head of