Telkom on Thursday announced plans to offer uncapped LTE broadband to consumers in selected suburbs at prices starting at R599/month for early adopters. But there are a few strings attached. The operator says the The SmartBroadband
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Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei has promised to hire 500 staff in its South African operation in the next five years, a growth of 50% from its current 1 000 staff, as it ramps up operations in the local market. The company’s newly
Telkom is claiming to be the first operator in South Africa to launch uncapped high-speed wireless broadband based on LTE. To be launched on 10 June as part of a promotional offer, packages will be capped at 150 users per base station to ensure a good
EOH has announced that it is acquiring an equity stake of between 49% and 80% (depending on the country) in pan-African IT applications and business solutions provider Twenty Third Century Systems and its subsidiaries. The value of the deal has
Hotspot network AlwaysOn, which is owned by Internet Solutions, is taking direct aim at mobile networks with the launch of a Wi-Fi calling offer, the company announced late on Wednesday. The service is device and platform agnostic and you
MTN has cut the price of its popular low-cost Steppa 2 smartphone by 20%, from R999 to R799, a day after rival Vodacom launched its new Smart 6 smartphone, which retails for R799. The operators are keen to get everyone off older feature phones
A lack of money and skills and the high cost of coal and diesel continue to plague Eskom, a civil society conference on the country’s electricity crisis heard on Wednesday. “Finances need to be improved to enable Eskom to carry on with
Is the SABC back to blacklisting press and commentators? That’s what South Africa’s media is wondering after the SABC withdrew an invitation to commentator Eusebius McKaiser to appear on a
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appeal against the high court order that he be suspended pending a disciplinary inquiry, is set to be heard in the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein in September. This is after the case
The department of telecommunications & postal services has come out in strong support for the principle of network neutrality. Net neutrality is the concept of treating all Web traffic equally. Debates around net neutrality are raging in