MTN has sold 1 000 of its base stations in Uganda to a new company, 51% held by tower-sharing company American Tower Corp (ATC) and 49% held by the JSE-listed mobile telecommunications group. The new company is known as TowerCo Uganda. The $175m deal comes
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Imagine a computer with 23TB of RAM and 2 800 processor cores, generating 60 trillion floating-point operations per second. That’s what Dell, the CSIR, the Centre for High Performance Computing and the University of Cambridge have built in Cape Town. It’s being billed as the fastest supercomputer
Troubled state-owned telecommunications wholesaler Broadband Infraco has promised to ramp up its spending from next year as it seeks to establish more network points of presence in towns and cities across the country. Newly appointed chief technical officer Kiruben Pillay
The loss-leading broadband special offer from 8ta, its 10GB of data for R199/month package, has been extended until mid-2012, it said on Thursday. The product, which is only available on a 24-month contract, has been in the market since June. The 10GB package remains the cheapest capped
For a long time, the only real manufacturer of the sort of slim, lightweight laptops that have earned the title “ultrabooks” has been Apple with its MacBook Air range. That’s fine if you’re an Apple user, or don’t mind becoming one, but not if you want or need to use Windows. Finally
Fast-growing JSE-listed IT services company EOH has bought Stanley Security Solutions SA, a company founded in 1948 and formerly part of The Stanley Works, a US-listed company. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. EOH CEO Asher Bohbot says the acquisition “complements” EOH’s portfolio
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has surprised the telecommunications industry by announcing on Wednesday that it will publish a framework for licensing of spectrum in the 800MHz and 2,6GHz bands on Thursday and would
Online retailer Amazon.com unveiled three new Kindles in September: the Kindle Fire, its first entry into the competitive world of tablet computing; the fourth generation of its basic e-reader; and the new touch-based reader, aptly named the Kindle Touch. Pitched as the top of the e-ink range
Alan Knott-Craig’s investment vehicle, World of Avatar, which recently bought MXit, has appointed former Mvelaphanda CEO Yolanda Cuba to its board as it chair. Cuba sits on a number of boards already, including those of SAB, Reunert and Absa. Knott-Craig says that as the World of Avatar
The telecommunications regulator came under attack last week after it published a long-awaited framework on local-loop unbundling. It was accused of, among other things, failing in its mandate. But the truth is it has limited room to move. The Internet Service