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Johannesburg suburb Melville is jumping on to high-speed fibre broadband as infrastructure player Fibrehoods continues its expansion. The suburb will have access to a 100Mbit/s network in February as the company deploys its aerial fibre broadband programme
Telkom’s share price has been knocked sharply lower in the last two trading sessions as investors react negatively to the company’s quarterly trading and operational update for the three months ended 31 December 2015, released on Monday morning. In trading on Tuesday, Telkom’s
Independent information and communications technology company Vox Telecom has acquired a majority stake in enterprise-level marketing cloud company Everlytic for an undisclosed sum. The Vumela Fund, which is managed by First National
Hakskeen Pan in the Kalahari, the site where the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) will attempt the land speed record later this year, is flooded. And organisers couldn’t be happier about it. The Kalahari received more than 50mm of rain recently
MultiChoice will this week unveil its new digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform in South Africa, becoming the first broadcaster in South Africa to launch commercial DTT services. Using the GOtv name, the same branding it’s using for its DTT offerings
MWeb said on Monday it plans to close its five retail stores around the country and upgrade its online sales channel at the same time “allowing customers to shop when it suits them”. The Internet service provider, which is owned by DStv and
South Africa’s highly competitive subscription video-on-demand (VOD) landscape has claimed its first victim. Less than a month after Netflix announced it was expanding to markets across the world, including South Africa, Times Media Group has shuttered Vidi
Mobile telecommunications helped offset pressures in other areas of Telkom’s business in the third quarter ended 31 December 2015, the company told investors on Monday in a trading and operational update. However, profitability in mobile will take longer
Telkom is moving aggressively to get its copper-based broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) users onto its new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in the areas where it’s already deployed fibre infrastructure. On Monday, the company launched an offer to
Former MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia has joined listed telecommunications provider Huge Group as an independent nonexecutive director with immediate effect. Huge Group said on Friday that Bulbulia, who was most
