In his state of the nation address, delivered to parliament in Cape Town on Thursday evening, President Jacob Zuma promised…
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The second high-capacity fibre-optic submarine cable system along Africa’s east coast will be brought ashore at Mtunzini, north of Durban,…
The latest example of a moribund state-owned enterprise is Sentech. It was once the signal distribution arm of the SABC, but was separated from its parent broadcaster when e-tv was licenced. It was encouraged to expand its lines of business by the former communications minister, Poison
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications will interrogate senior management at state-owned signal distributor Sentech on two weeks’ time. The committee…
It’s official! The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has approved revised applications from Vodacom, MTN and Cell C: mobile…
Tensions are simmering between Internet service providers and industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), following the conversion…
Sentech is in trouble. Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda last week outlined the damning findings of a task team appointed to probe ongoing troubles at the state-owned broadcasting company. Here’s one way to fix it.
MTN Nigeria and Nigerian second network operator Globacom are among six bidders shortlisted for Nigeria’s stricken incumbent operator, Nitel. State-owned…
Web search giant Google is a mounting a fresh assault on Facebook and Twitter with a new social networking tool, Buzz, that it plans to begin offering to users of its Gmail e-mail service over the next few weeks. Google has struggled to gain a strong foothold in the social networking space.