Author: Staff Reporter

Vox is cutting the retail prices of its “Fat Pipe” home DSL plans to below R1/GB, effective immediately. The price decrease will apply for all new online sales, across its Fat Pipe DSL product range. Existing Fat Pipe customers

Seacom has partnered with Indoi to build a new, US$150mtelecommunications cable system to connect Mauritius to Africa and the rest of the world. IOX Cable, a subsidiary of Indoi, has signed a

MTN South Africa has appointed Giovanni Chiarelli as its new chief technology and information officer. Chiarelli replaces Babak Fouladi, who was interim CTO in addition to his role as MTN group executive for technology and information systems. Chiarelli has 17 years

Telkom’s aggressively priced FreeMe mobile plans have proved to be a huge hit for Telkom, the telecommunications operator said on Tuesday. In the six months to 30 September 2016, Telkom’s mobile voice and

Telkom’s traditional business of fixed lines is not looking healthy. The number of fixed access lines in service has plummeted by 7% in the past year, to less than 3,1m, the company disclosed in its interim financial

Teraco Data Environments has announced it has started construction on a huge new data centre at River Fields Bredell, 20km north of its current Isando campus on Johannesburg’s East Rand. The 24MW, new data centre will be even bigger

It has been 25 years since the first Internet connection was established in South Africa. Saturday, 12 November 2016 marks a quarter of a century since the first Internet protocol connection was made between the computer centre at Rhodes

Brian Molefe, the CEO of South Africa’s state-owned power utility, said he will leave Eskom following the release of a report by the nation’s graft ombudsman into the influence of the wealthy Gupta family on the state and the

South Africa’s government spent R14bn on information and communications technology in the 2015/2016 financial year, with limited growth expected through to 2018/2019, when spending is projected to reach R15,3bn, a new research report

Vodacom and MTN on Tuesday separately announced plans to deploy narrowband “Internet of things” networks in South Africa in 2017, with both companies planning to showcase the technology at an industry conference in Cape Town next