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Communication minister Yunus Carrim on Thursday welcomed a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe on the Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa). “We welcome the SIU proclamation on Usaasa. Obviously it is regrettable, but the proclamation is absolutely necessary in view of the persistent allegations against Usaasa
The focus of the low-cost microcomputer Raspberry Pi, which costs as little as R349, has not hit its intended target market in South Africa, says RS Components, one of two global distributors of Raspberry Pi. RS Components GM Brian Andrews says it’s more South African hobbyists and designers that have taken an interest in the
Vodacom intends tabling an offer of US$460m (about R5bn) to buy Neotel, according to a report published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The newspaper, quoting an unnamed executive at India’s Tata Communications, Neotel’s holding company, said that Vodacom, which is a subsidiary of the UK’s Vodafone, will also take on Neotel’s
Takalani Tshivhase will take a leave of absence as an executive director of Pinnacle Holdings following the news this week that he had been arrested for allegedly trying to bribe a top police official to secure a tender. “In the light of the bringing of the charge, Tshivhase has
A lack of regulation in the mobile network market would likely harm consumers, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. Kate Hoffmeyer, for Cell C, argued that if MTN and Vodacom were granted interim relief through the court suspending Icasa’s 2014 regulations, this would result in the market being
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope would put South Africa and the continent on the map in a different way, science & technology minister Derek Hanekom said on Wednesday. “We are seeing a mega scientific project, the biggest international scientific project,” he said in Pretoria
The May 2014 commercial launch of the .africa top-level domain is now a certainty after the final outstanding paperwork was signed at the 49th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (Icann) in Singapore this week, the ZA Central Registry
MTN and Vodacom should have disclosed their costs for calls to other networks, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. David Unterhalter SC, for communications regulator Icasa, argued that the companies would not reveal these costs to Icasa when
Investors have turned on Pinnacle Holdings, dumping the technology group’s shares for a second day in a row. In late morning trading on Wednesday, the company’s shares were off by more than 20%, extending a rout that began on Tuesday when the share
MasterCard’s annual Online Behaviour Study, presented by World Wide Worx, has revealed that the availability of secure payment facilities is most critical to South Africans when they shop online. The study revealed that 90% of respondents cite the availability
