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Vodacom on Tuesday said it plans to pump R1bn into upgrading its network in Gauteng, which will include expanding 3G in the province’s townships. The mobile operator said that it will spend more than R1bn in Gauteng in the current financial

SAP has takes the wraps off a seven-year plan to invest US$500m (about R5,3bn) in Africa, hoping to accelerate its growth across five regions on the continent, including South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. Through the long-term investment, the German software maker plans to train up to

Determining whether SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng lied about his qualifications is the golden thread of an application to have his appointment set aside, the Western Cape high court heard on Tuesday. “Dishonesty is dishonesty, wherever it occurs,” said Steven Katz

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