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SA couch potatoes, rejoice! SA is getting another challenger in the television market. And the man behind it, SouthTel Group’s Oscar Dube, is optimistic the service will offer the value proposition that will attract

Telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), and members of the SA Police Service on Friday raided the head office and two satellite offices of controversial Internet service provider

SA Airways is the only airline that can test the feasibility of using cellphones on its flights, the SA Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Friday. “The CAA wishes to clarify that despite reports from some media

The public holiday madness is finally behind us and the technology news is flowing thick and fast. In this week’s episode, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones look at an exciting new television venture, VOD:TV, launching in SA on

When Hollywood remakes a critically adored foreign film, the fear is usually that the new version will deface the original like a kid with a set of Koki pens let loose on the Mona Lisa. Let Me In, a remake of an artsy Swedish

MTN Group has lifted its subscriber base by 4% in the quarter ended 31 March. It now has 147,2m customers on its networks in 21 countries in the Middle East and Africa. At the end of December 2010, the figure was 141,6m

In more than a quarter of SA homes, at least one person has access to the Internet. That’s a finding of Statistics SA’s latest annual general household survey. According to StatsSA, 26,8% of homes had at least one

Fledgling pay-TV provider TopTV will not launch high-definition channels or a personal video recorder (PVR) decoder this year, pushing out their launch to the second quarter of 2012. The broadcaster, owned by

First National Bank’s Internet service provider, FNB Connect, will offer its subscribers free access to YouTube for two months, effective until the end of June, in a sign of increasing competition in the broadband market