Author: Duncan McLeod

Mmamoloko Kubayi has been named as the new chair of parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications and postal services. The position was effectively held previously by Eric Kholwane. The communications portfolio committee, which now looks after the SABC and communications regulator

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has paid tribute to the late CEO of Business Connexion (BCX), Benjamin Mophatlane, saying his death is a “great loss, not only for BCX, but for business in South Africa, the Africa region and the world”. “His zest for life and energising presence will be deeply missed,” Maseko said

Business Connexion CEO Benjamin Mophatlane, 41, has died. “The Business Connexion Group board and exco announces with profound regret and sadness, the passing of our chief executive officer, Benjamin Mophatlane,” the company said in an internal e-mail. “Benjamin was in a meeting with

The board of Business Connexion (BCX) has named Vanessa Olver as acting CEO following the death on Wednesday of Benjamin Mophatlane. Mophatlane, who was just 41, died of a heart attack while in a meeting in Rosebank in Johannesburg. Olver, a chartered accountant, joined BCX in August 2009

Internet service provider Afrihost, which is currently the subject of an acquisition by mobile operator MTN, has announced it intends selling its own smartphone and offering early adopters 12GB of “free” data when they buy one. The phone, the Zest T1, which costs R1 999 once-off, will come with

Minibus taxi commuters will get 50MB/month of free Wi-Fi data as part of a plan to roll-out broadband Internet access to commuter taxis countrywide. Santaco, the South African National Taxi Council, has taken the wraps off the service, called WiTaxi, at a launch event in

Vumatel, the company that recently won the project to deploy fibre-to-the-home broadband in Parkhurst in Johannesburg intends rolling out fibre to as many as 200 000 homes in the next three to four years at a cost of between R2bn and R3bn. The company, which is led by CEO Niel Schoeman

MultiChoice has commissioned capacity on a new satellite from Intelsat, less than two years after the company began using Intelsat 20, a high-capacity satellite launched in 2012. Intelsat said on Wednesday that it has signed a 15-year service agreement with MultiChoice for Intelsat 36, a new

JSE-listed technology services company Business Connexion (BCX), which is currently the subject of a R2,7bn takeover bid by telecommunications group Telkom, has itself acquired a 30% stake in a Nigerian company, AppZone, which provide IT solutions to the financial services sector in Lagos. The value of the deal

Santaco, the South African National Taxi Council, will this Thursday announce plans to provide free Wi-Fi Internet access to minibus taxi commuters and around taxi ranks The taxi council is due to launch the service at an event in Orlando West in Soweto on Thursday morning