Altech has added Warner Bros to the content bouquet offered on the Node video-on-demand and home automation set-top box in a move it says “substantially extends its content library of movie and television entertainment”. Despite “lower than
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The fibre broadband market in South Africa is becoming increasingly competitive, according to Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko. At Telkom’s annual results briefing in Johannesburg on Monday
South Africa’s integrated communications service provider Telkom is set to release full-year results on Monday, 8 June. The last few years have seen the company’s core fixed-line business trending lower, as growth in infrastructure and in turn increased
Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei has promised to hire 500 staff in its South African operation in the next five years, a growth of 50% from its current 1 000 staff, as it ramps up operations in the local market. The company’s newly
A new, South African-developed mobile application, Recast – on the Web at recast.fm – allows music fans to listen to radio playlists, while stripping out the interruptions of advertising and DJ chatter. Developed by Richard Oakley
EOH has announced that it is acquiring an equity stake of between 49% and 80% (depending on the country) in pan-African IT applications and business solutions provider Twenty Third Century Systems and its subsidiaries. The value of the deal has
Telkom has introduced an electronic tender management system, which it said will herald big changes in its procurement processes. All tender processes will be moved onto an electronic portal
Vodacom is continuing with its strategy to push low-end smartphones into the mass market to drive up usage of its data network. On Tuesday, the operator took the wraps off its latest low-cost smartphone, the Vodacom Smart 6, which is firmly
MTN Business, the enterprise services arm of mobile operator MTN, has announced a number of key appointments as it looks to grow its presence in the business services market. The company has named Mandisa Ntloko as head
Alan Knott-Craig’s Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi project with the City of Tshwane could “set the pattern for social impact bonds” in South Africa, where the private sector guarantees delivery of services, the