Author: Duncan McLeod

Telkom and e.tv have secured an interdict against Icasa, preventing the spectrum auction planned for later this month from taking place until the merits of their case can be heard by the high court.

E-commerce was one bright spot in an otherwise mostly grim set of results from Walmart-owned retail group Massmart for the 2020 financial year ended 27 December.

Kgosie Matthews, the Icasa councillor who was appointed only reluctantly to the ICT regulator by communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, has resigned.

The Internet Service Providers’ Association has called for mediation, rather than litigation, to resolve the stand-off between communications regulator Icasa and telecommunications operators over the looming spectrum auction.

Standard Bank said on Thursday that system problems have caused some its customers to have card transactions deducted from their accounts more than once.

One of the last big hurdles in the way of the rapid commercial deployment of television white spaces Internet access technology in South Africa has fallen.

The SABC wants a new tax on households introduced to fund public broadcasting and to do away with the television licence fee, which few South Africans are paying anyway.

The SABC wants a government proposal that it be required to distribute its television programming exclusively through Sentech scrapped, warning that it’s already being disadvantaged by “monopoly” pricing.

Technology group Mustek has reported a stellar, 166.7% jump in headline earnings per share in the six months ended 31 December 2020 on revenue that rose 23.7% to R3.7-billion.

In a surprise development, Takealot.com has announced that its CEO, Kim Reid, is stepping down from the role. He is not leaving Takelot, though – he will become chairman of South Africa’s largest online retailer later this year.