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Communications minister Yunus Carrim intends issuing a new policy direction to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) dealing with the unbundling of Telkom’s local loop of copper-cable infrastructure into homes and businesses. Speaking on a Google Hangout organised by

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s council has resolved that the body’s inspectors should no longer seize equipment of operators believed to be making use of radio frequency spectrum unlawfully, TechCentral has learnt from a well-placed source. This follows the seizure earlier

The ANC has called for DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard’s removal from parliament’s ethics committee. She had “violated her oath to confidentiality” during a recent hearing by parliament’s ethics committee into former communications minister Dina Pule, the office of ANC chief whip Stone Sizani claimed

The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has introduced a new digital customs management system at border posts, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday. “This is a very important milestone,” Gordhan told media at Megawatt Park in Sunninghill, Johannesburg. “We would be one of the few countries

South African-headquartered technology services giant Dimension Data had concluded its R328m acquisition of East Africa’s AccessKenya Group, with all of the preconditions of the offer now satisfied. Didata is expected to pay shareholders who accepted the offer on

The Payment Pebble, the mobile phone point-of-sale device developed by Thumbzup and announced in November 2012, has been delayed by regulatory hurdles, says Absa, the bank partner that will launch the product. Absa had said the product would be launched in the first half of 2013, but was unable

A month ago, South African billionaire Mark Shuttleworth launched an ambitious project, through his company Canonical, to raise US$32m in a month in order to build a smartphone, the Ubuntu Edge, that would act as both a mobile phone and a portable desktop computer powered by the Ubuntu

Cell C will roll out an additional 100 base stations in Johannesburg over the next three months to increase network capacity and improve quality of service. The first 19 will be operational by the end of August. The move comes amid growing criticism from consumers over the quality of the operator’s

Orange, the giant French telecommunications operator that wants to launch a full-service mobile virtual network operator in South Africa, has accused some of the country’s mobile operators – specifically naming Vodacom and Telkom Mobile – of behaving anticompetitively by engaging in activity

MTN reaffirmed on Wednesday that it is seeking 5MHz of spectrum between 2,01GHz and 2,015GHz to provide provide mobile broadband services using time-division duplexing technology. But its rivals, Vodacom, Neotel and Cell C – along with would-be operator Smile Communications