MTN has become the first operator in South Africa to launch a smartphone running Mozilla’s open-source and Web-based Firefox OS operating system. The smartphone, the Alcatel OneTouch Fire E, works
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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has defended itself against stinging criticism from Cell C, which last year accused the regulator of making a “dramatic U-turn” in wholesale inter-network call rates. When Icasa published its latest call termination
Setumo Mohapi, the former CEO of Sentech, has taken the reins at the State IT Agency after all. He began his duties at the government’s central IT procurement agency on Wednesday, TechCentral has established. Last month, cabinet announced that Mohapi
A new start-up, Pargo, is targeting the e-commerce logistics market, opening up parcel collection points inside retail outlets around the country.
The Post Office dismissed six employees who violated a court order during the illegal strike that crippled postal operations in the last quarter of 2014, it said on Wednesday. The dismissal follows an internal disciplinary hearing which resulted from a conviction
The SABC is set to spend R100m more on staff salaries and paying board members. This is according to the public broadcaster’s new corporate plan for 2015/2016 to 2017/2018, which also says revenues are “constrained” amid advertisers cutting back “as a result of
Communications minister Faith Muthambi said in a statement on Wednesday morning that government has decided to abandon South Africa’s digital migration project. This follows years of wrangling over the switchover from analogue to digital television
Telkom says its discussions with the Communication Workers Union over voluntary severance and early retirement packages — known as VSPs and VERPs — have deadlocked, allowing the company to go ahead with the offers to affected employees. However
Deputy minister in the presidency Buti Manamela has launched a Mxit application called Isago to promote government’s national youth policy, which is currently in development. The app allows youngsters to give their views on the future of the country. Isago means “my
JSE-listed Richemont has announced it will merge its high-fashion online retail business Net-A-Porter with Italy’s Yoox, a global Internet retailer for fashion brands that owns websites such as yoox.com