A battle over control of Telkom may be on the cards. Communications minister Roy Padayachie has warned that government does not want to lose the control it exercises over the JSE-listed group when special rights it enjoys expire early next year.
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In a development that could change the dynamics of SA’s telecommunications industry, mobile operator Cell C, Dimension Data division Internet Solutions and Andile Ngcaba’s Convergence Partners have teamed up to build a R5bn, 12 000km national fibre-optic network.
The reduction in mobile termination rates in March has lopped R730m off Vodacom’s top line in the six months to September 2010. Vodacom chief financial officer Rob Shuter says the reduction
Telkom’s new mobile business, 8ta, is stepping up the fight with rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C with the launch this week of five contract packages, all offering aggressive tariffs.
In the past 12 months, AltX-listed Huge Group’s share price has defied gravity, soaring nearly 400%, making it one of the best performing shares on the JSE. At face value, though, the share’s sterling performance makes little sense.
Sentech looks set to close loss-making divisions, including its once much-vaunted telecommunications carrier-of-carriers division and its direct-to-home satellite television business, to focus on its core business of signal distribution.
In the beginning, just before the Big Bang, scientists believe the entire universe was packed into a tiny ball of mass just 10-38cm wide. To put that in context, an atom is many, many times that size. This tiny ball of mass exploded and grew over the last 13bn years
Internet service providers have slammed Mweb’s decision to cut off its transit links, saying the company ought to have engaged in discussions instead of taking the fight to the media. Last week, MWeb cut off its transit links with Telkom’s wholesale Internet access
Analysts across the board have welcomed the appointment of Roy Padayachie as communications minister, saying his experience in government and in telecommunications should prove invaluable to the sector. President Jacob Zuma surprised almost everyone
With thousands of users from around the world and around 70PB (that’s petabytes) of data handled on a daily basis, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has a surprisingly simple technology requirement.