Author: Staff Reporter

Eskom warned on Monday night that forced blackouts could return at short notice due to the “unexpected loss of some generation units over the weekend”.

MultiChoice’s streaming video platform DStv Now served a peak of more than 500Gbit/s to sports fans during the Rugby World Cup final – the equivalent of 4TB of data a minute.

Liquid Telecom South Africa said on Thursday that it has built enhancements into its core network that will offer customers “near-unlimited bandwidth capacity”.

Long-serving Telkom executive Alphonzo Samuels will retire at the end of March 2020, the company said on Wednesday.

South Africa is hopelessly ill-prepared for the move from Internet protocol version 4 to version 6, with IPv4 address space set to run out by as early as March 2020, the Internet Service Providers’ Association has warned.

Criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to defraud customers, MTN South Africa warned on Monday.

The South African Banking Risk Information Centre warned on Friday that local banks are under sustained distributed denial-of-service attacks, targeting “various public-facing services”.

The City of Johannesburg said on Friday that it has detected a “network breach”, which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.

Altron lifted headline earnings per share by 4% in the six months to 31 August 2019 on the back of an 8% increase in revenue from continuing operations to R8.5-billion.

JSE-listed vehicle telematics company Cartrack has delivered a strong set of financial results for the six months ended 31 August 2019, reaching a million subscribers for the first time.