The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved an application by WirelessG and Row 44 to install Wi-Fi equipment in commercial aircraft in SA, paving the way for in-flight Internet access. WirelessG, which provides a network of Wi-Fi hotspots
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Unbundling the local loop — introducing greater competition and regulating wholesale pricing in telecommunications access networks — is the “single most important regulatory intervention” available to lower the cost of broadband in SA. That’s
With mixed emotions, your hosts of this week’s ZA Tech Show, Ben Kelly, Simon Dingle and Samantha Beckbessinger, discuss memories of Steve Jobs, the iPhone 4S, Windows 8 and the future of Nokia, the BlackBerry and Seacom outages
BlackBerry maker, Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM), has finally offered users of its smartphones an explanation for two consecutive days of outages affecting users across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia and South America
Ten years ago, world-renowned academic and activist Manuel Castells came to SA. It was not long after the publication of his seminal trilogy on the rise of the network society. From Silicon Valley to Yokohama, he had tracked the ways states can
M-Net has hit back at competitor e.tv over allegations by the free-to-air broadcaster that the pay-TV operator is acting out of self-interest in proposing that SA adopts cheaper digital converters rather than more expensive set-top boxes in the migration to digital
Submarine telecommunications cable operator Seacom estimates it will take about two weeks to restore fully its link through the Mediterranean Sea, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Seacom experienced a “service affecting outage in the Mediterranean on Saturday
Many BlackBerry users appeared to be without Internet service again on Tuesday as they took to social media networks like Twitter to complain of a fresh outage after yesterday’s prolonged interruption to the BlackBerry Internet Service. Yesterday’s outage affected
The official Facebook application for Apple’s iPad has supposedly been ready since as early as May of this year, yet it only showed up in the App Store on Monday. It’s arrival, albeit late, represents a combination of the world’s bestselling
Competitors seeking access to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper cables into homes and businesses should be able to choose the model they want to use to gain access to the infrastructure. That’s the view of cellular network operator Vodacom, which