Communications minister Yunus Carrim has named CSIR president Sibusiso Sibisi and Research ICT Africa director Allison Gillwald as chair and deputy chair respectively of a new National Broadband Advisory Council, which has been established to advise the minister on the implementation of South Africa Connect
There’s a certain roominess in the studio this week as Brett Haggard and Benedict Kelly meet up to discuss the happenings in the South African technology sector over the past week. Topics under examination include mobile termination rates, the Samsung Galaxy S5, the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact
Pan-African telecommunications operator Liquid Telecom has established a satellite hub at Teraco’s vendor-neutral satellite earth station in South Africa in a project worth several million dollars. The company says the hub will allow it to keep telecoms traffic originating
MultiChoice, which owns pay-television service DStv, has announced new prices for the year ahead. The new rates including an above-inflation 6,4% increase in the monthly cost of DStv Premium, the operator’s top-end bouquet. The price of the cheaper and fast-growing
A month ago, Bloomberg proclaimed the chairman of Tencent, Ma Huateng, to be China’s richest man, with a wealth of US$13bn based on Tencent’s Hong Kong-listed shares, of which he owns 10%. His family name Ma means horse, so the Internet
OpenView HD, the free-to-air satellite service launched by e.tv sister company Platco Digital, is joining rival MultiChoice in launching a channel dedicated to the trial of murder accused Oscar Pistorius, which begins on Monday, 3 March. The channel, called “Trial TV: The State vs Oscar
The department of communications is moving ahead to plans to overhaul the legislation that governs South Africa’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector. Communications minister Yunus Carrim will launch a national consultative conference
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) has called for the resignation of the public protector, following her damning report regarding acting SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. The union on Tuesday promised to organise “massive” marches across the
The Communications Workers Union (CWU) dismissed concerns that its support of the SABC’s controversial acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng would be detrimental to its other members at the SABC, who might fear that the union now sided
The Vodafone Foundation, Vodafone’s social investments arm, has taken the wraps off Instant Network Mini, an 11kg mobile “network in a backpack” that the global mobile operator says can be deployed in just 10 minutes, helping aid workers carry out crucial
