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The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) wants the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and other role-players to recognise the “unique opportunity” afforded by the availability of digital dividend

Do you live in an area not well served by fixed lines or mobile broadband? A new start-up, SkyeVine, a joint venture between JSE-listed Ellies Group and Q-Kon, wants to plug the gap with a new broadband satellite offering

Communications minister Roy Padayachie has finally moved to fill the vacant director-generalship at the department of communications. He has appointed Rosey Sekese as DG for five years, with effect from 1 June

Mobile marketing and advertising spend in SA will reach R1bn/year by 2012, according to a new study. Mobile advertising revenues were about R500m in the past year. Year-on-year growth trends suggest this figure

Companies should not take the Consumer Protection Act lightly in the hope that government will not be able to enforce the legislation, a legal expert has warned. Roger Knowles, speaking at Dimension Data’s Accelerate conference

If there were any lingering doubts that Microsoft is serious about taking on rivals Google and Apple in the smartphone war, the software maker put them to rest on Tuesday when it took the wraps off a significant update to

Telkom faces a skills crisis after granting more than 1 500 voluntary severance packages to experienced workers, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. “In more than 57% of the applications which were approved

Telkom has finally confirmed officially that it’s in the process of upgrading most of its 512kbit/s asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) users to 1Mbit/s. The telecommunications operator says it began upgrading the lines speeds

Microsoft SA is about to embark on a second phase of its R475m black economic empowerment “equity equivalence” investment programme and is looking for as many as five black-owned independent software vendors