Author: Staff Reporter

JSE-listed technology group Altron said on Monday before markets opened that it plans to dispose of its subsidiary Crabtree Electrical Accessories to Germany’s Siemens for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which must still be approved

The Internet Service Providers’ Association, an organisation that represents most of South Africa’s ISPs, has accused communications regulator Icasa of “dithering” over intervening in the mobile market to bring down data prices

The council of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has placed its CEO, Pakamile Pongwana, on “precautionary suspension”, it said in a statement on Thursday afternoon. Pongwana, who has been CEO of the broadcasting

Vumatel will introduce a new, 200Mbit/s fibre-to-the-home offering on 1 August, according to several Internet service providers. The company itself is not saying anything – a spokesman was unable to comment

Telkom’s wholesale arm, Openserve, working with Nokia, has achieved download speeds of 900Mbit/s over a short-haul copper circuit. The speed was achieved as part of tests as Openserve prepares to deploy

The MTN group is getting a new procurement and supply chain chief. Dirk Karl, currently senior vice president of network technology at Deutsche Telekom and Orange procurement joint venture Buyln, will join the Johannesburg

As part of a promotion that begins immediately and expires at the end of August, mobile operator MTN has announced its post-paid customers can make unlimited on-network calls at no additional cost. The move comes as competition in

MTN South Africa said on Thursday that it has completed a major network upgrade in the greater Durban area, which it started 18 months ago, while addressing criticism from some residents of the city about the way

Those who use First National Bank’s transactional banking app for smartphones will no longer use data when accessing services. From 1 July, the data the app uses will be zero-rated across all networks. “We believe that access to data or airtime

New research suggests that the average cost of a data breach in South Africa is a staggering R32m. According to the research, from Ponemon Institute and commissioned by IBM Security, that figure has risen by 12% in the past