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Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions has launched a new range of products under the “IS Ignite” brand aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The move is a response to growing demand for self-service products and allows entrepreneurs to manage their own needs, it says. “By nature

The Democratic Alliance has called on roads agency Sanral and the department of transport to can the controversial e-tolling project in light of the fact that a similar project in Portugal failed. In a statement, DA shadow transport minister Ian Ollis says it “can only be deduced from South Africa’s failure to learn from

Although Tata Communications has twice rubbished talk that it has any intention of selling its controlling stake in Neotel, the market was again awash with speculation at the weekend that some sort of deal may be on the cards. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted

Cellphone giant MTN has admitted that it furnished the Ethiopian home of African Union commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Sunday Times reported. MTN corporate affairs CEO Paul Norman told the newspaper the company decided to buy the furniture for the AU house in Addis Ababa because it had not

A dozen police officers apprehended a man who flew a radio-controlled mini helicopter over the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela was being treated on Friday. The “multicopter” had a rotating camera and was in the sky for a few minutes. A multicopter looks like a spider. It has several arms

Telkom is increasing fixed-line telephony charges and hiking the cost of line rental, despite the continued fall in the number of lines in service as consumers switch to mobile alternatives. The telecommunications operator is, however, leaving broadband subscription fees unchanged. Telkom claims the

After 38 years as a publicly traded company, Altech will terminate its listing on the JSE on 20 August, provided it gets the support of shareholders for the move, the technology group, which is controlled by Altron, said on Thursday. Last month, Altron announced that it intended to buy out minority

Free-to-air broadcasters SABC and e.tv are up in arms after an audit found the viewership figures provided by the South African Audience Research Foundation (Saarf) in recent years were allegedly inaccurate. The broadcasters claim this has cost them hundreds of millions of rand in lost advertising

Shares in MTN powered higher on Thursday afternoon after it lost to Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom in the race to win one of two potentially highly lucrative licences on offer to build mobile telecommunications networks in Myanmar. In late afternoon trading, MTN

South African-headquartered mobile phone operator MTN has failed to secure an operating licence in Myanmar, it said on Thursday. The two licences that were up for grabs have gone to Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom. MTN received notification from that country’s telecommunications operator