Johannesburg has placed 29th out of 40 cities in a new ranking on ICT maturity. The report, by Ericsson, has placed Cairo, Egypt in 35th place, while Lagos, Nigeria is in 38th position. Ericsson’s latest Networked Society City Index ranks the 40 cities’ ICT maturity in terms of the leverage they get from technology
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A full six months after President Jacob Zuma announced he would split the department of communications in two, his office appears set to issue a new proclamation to determine the transfer of functions between the new departments of communications and telecommunications
Democratic Alliance MP Natasha Michael on Tuesday demanded public enterprises minister Lynne Brown supply parliament with all maintenance records for the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga. In what appears to be a continuation
Vodacom intends rolling out high-speed fibre-optic broadband to 250 000 end points within the next three years. This will include connecting 150 000 homes and 100 000 businesses, the telecommunications operator’s
The high court in Johannesburg will hear an urgent application this week from Cell C to have a banner set up by a disgruntled customer removed, the company said on Monday. “Today the court indicated that the case will be
Just two months after Mr Price announced that it would be South Africa’s second mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) after Virgin Mobile, another company has announced plans to venture into the MVNO space. Cape Town-based Smart Mobile, which specialises in providing cellular services and handsets
In a move that could rattle its competitors’ cages, Telkom has launched a new package, called Unlimited Lite, offering customers unlimited calls to fixed-line networks and to its own mobile network for R599/month. Unlimited Lite is a “lighter version” of Telkom’s Completely Unlimited plan. Unlimited Lite packages are
Altron TMT subsidiary Bytes People Solutions, part of the Bytes Technology Group, has made an offer to acquire Inter-Active Technologies, a specialist customer interaction management business, for an undisclosed sum. The agreement has been signed, but the deal is still subject to the approval of the
Cellphone network provider Cell C will launch an urgent court action on Monday to have a banner set up in Johannesburg by a disgruntled customer removed, a spokesman said. The application would be launched in the high court in Johannesburg against the WorldWear Mall
The average volume of data consumed per smartphone on Vodacom’s network in South Africa jumped by 55,4% to 336MB/month year-on-year in the six-month period ended 30 September 2014. The mobile telecommunications group revealed the numbers alongside its interim financial results