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Five City Power employees have been arrested for allegedly stealing drums of cable worth R4,5m from the Randburg depot in Johannesburg, the power utility said on Tuesday. The three electricians and two team leaders were arrested on Friday and charged with fraud and theft, City Power MD
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was headhunted by the broadcaster and it is therefore incorrect to say he misrepresented himself to obtain a position, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Norman Arendse, for Motsoeneng, told the Western Cape high court Motsoeneng was
MTN South Africa has secured a tender from City Power, Johannesburg’s electricity supply agency, to turn lampposts into cellular base stations in a move the operator believes will go a long way to solving coverage challenges not
The latest audio codec for cellular networks, introduced in 1998, is AMR, which continues to be developed. It offers a better quality audio call than enhanced full-rate and uses the same amount of bandwidth. AMR encodes narrowband signals in the 200Hz to
Telkom’s Internet service provider intends enforcing its fair-use policy on its customers in what the operator claims is “in the spirit of enhancing the Internet experience of all its users”. Until now, Telkom ISP – the name of its service provider business
Durban-based technology services company Adapt IT has grown headline earnings per share by 55% to 34,55c in its 2014 financial year, which ended in June. That was on the back of a 34% rise in revenue to R406,3m and a 69% improvement in operating profit to R49,6m. On the
A turf war between the two cabinet ministers charged with implementing South Africa’s digital migration programme threatens to derail it, just eight months before the 2015 deadline. Sources in the government say the tensions are so high that they resulted in telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele missing the end of July
President Jacob Zuma must tell communications minister Faith Muthambi to back off and allow telecommunications and postal services Siyabonga Cwele to do his job when it comes to South Africa’s long-delayed project to migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. That’s the view of Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn, who says a turf war
An application that’s designed to help speed up and improve the accuracy and ease of performing inspections of behalf of insurers has won the overall prize in the annual App of the Year awards. The awards, conceptualised by Creative Space Media and sponsored by MTN Business, recognise South African
A South African vehicle tracking and fleet management company, Pulsit Electronics, has developed a system it believes could help weaken the scourge of truck hijackings in Southern Africa. It works by countering the signal jamming devices criminals use
