Fibre telecommunications industry lobby group, the FTTH Council Africa, has warned it will take the Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality to court on Friday if it continues to enforce a moratorium, introduced on Tuesday, on new fibre installations on Gauteng’s East Rand. FTTH Council Africa CEO Juanita Clark says the moratorium on granting new way leaves
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The Democratic Alliance called on Thursday for public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba, as well as representatives from Eskom and Transnet, to appear before MPs for urgent talks on the massive scale of copper theft. “Minister Gigaba confirmed [in a written reply to a parliamentary question] that Eskom and Transnet
Cabinet has approved the ownership support roll-out framework for television set-top boxes to poor households, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi announced on Thursday. Briefing the media following Cabinet’s fortnightly meeting on Tuesday, he said the executive had further approved full subsidisation of television-owning
Korean eletronics giant Samsung will begin selling television sets in selected African markets that come bundled with a satellite tuner that will allow consumers to watch a free television bouquet of more than 60 channels provided by satellite operator SES. The LED-backlit LCD flat-panel TVs, known as the Samsung LED TV Free Satellite
Neotel has doubled the number of retail subscribers on its network in the past 11 months, growing this customer segment from 50 000 to 100 000, according to CEO Sunil Joshi. However, the company, licensed in the mid-2000s as the first competitor to incumbent Telkom, is still struggling to make much on an impact in the consumer market, with less
India’s Tata Communications, which owns a controlling interest in local telecommunications operator Neotel, says SA is crucial to the company’s strategy of expanding into Southern Africa and into the continent more broadly. To do this, Tata Communications CEO Vinod Kumar says the company needs to deepen existing partnerships in the region and forge new ones. He won’t be drawn into acquisition
Let me say this up front: if you’ve held out for a tablet, Apple’s new iPad is the one to get. But if you’re an iPad 2 owner and perfectly content with its lesser screen, the decision to upgrade is much tougher. Yet again, Apple is basically competing with itself in the tablet arena. Android tablets, aside from the cheap US$199 Kindle Fire, continue to bombard consumers with
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has become the first company of its kind to reach the storage density of 1Tbit (a trillion bits) per square inch, an incredible milestone that will lead to even larger hard drives, including a 60TB drive. The company was able to achieve the new density with a technology called heat-assisted
In the Pew Research Centre’s annual “State of the News Media” report, which was released this week, there is an intriguing statistic: last year, American newspapers lost $10 of print advertising revenue for every $1 they gained in online ad revenue. The year before, the ratio was just $7 to $1. Why? Tom Rosenstiel of Pew’s Centre
Adam Russell and John Sear don’t look like revolutionaries. Mild mannered, bespectacled and dry of wit, you’d never guess they were planning to change our entire idea of cinema. But that’s exactly what their project — interactive big screen entertainment — is aimed at doing. If the name they’ve chosen is vague, it’s because the experience