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The Competition Tribunal last week fined Telkom R449m for abusing its dominance in the telecommunications industry between 1999 and 2004. Assuming Telkom doesn’t appeal against the decision, half of the penalty is to be paid within six months of the tribunal’s decision, with the balance is payable within 12 months

German-based media streaming company Simfy is set to launch a local offering of its music streaming service before the end of the month. Simfy Africa will have more than 18m tracks available for streaming and has secured licensing deals with all of the big international record labels, including Sony Music

Although Nokia and BlackBerry are slipping in developed markets, both brands continue to be wildly successful in SA. This is according to a market research report released this week by World Wide Worx. The research shows Nokia remains the most popular cellphone brand among SA’s urban residents

IBM is opening its first research laboratory on the African continent and has chosen Kenya, and not SA, as the location for the facility. IBM Research labs are credited with the creation of many of the foundations of information technology, including the invention of the relational database, disk storage

Another senior SA telecommunications executive, recruited recently to Nigeria’s Glo Mobile, has resigned. Richard Morse, who was appointed three months ago to head up strategy and innovation at Glo, says he left as a result of the way the company is being managed. Glo is Nigeria’s second biggest

Computer maker Lenovo has its sights set on Africa, and it’s not just the PC market in which it wants to compete more aggressively. The company is set to release a dual-Sim, low-cost smartphone in SA before the end of the year, a move that could annoy operators while delighting consumers

Nashua Mobile has extended its flat-rate “Xtreme Data” service to more Nokia devices, including Windows Phone Lumia devices, the company said on Monday. It first launched the flat-rate plans on the Nokia C3, X2-01, E5, E7 and N8, later making them available on the Asha 300, 303 and 201. Billed as an

Despite requesting it, Telkom has still not formally received a copy of the written interim order by the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee that caused a storm of controversy this week. On Wednesday, Telkom issued a media

It’s “just not true” that MTN’s tariff plans are too complex and its consumers “totally understand the value proposition”, says MTN SA MD Karel Pienaar. Pienaar was reacting to criticism that the company’s tariffs are too complicated for consumers to understand, especially in light of Cell C’s recent introduction of a uniform

The constitutional court will hear arguments on Friday as to why it should overturn an interim interdict preventing e-tolling in Gauteng from going ahead. According to the interdict granted by the high court in Pretoria on 28 April, a full review first needed to be carried out before electronic tolling of Gauteng’s highways