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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is giving telecommunications operators more time to comment on draft call termination rate regulations, announced 10 days ago, that sent the share prices of MTN and Vodacom plunging and Telkom surging
Roads agency Sanral and the department of justice were discussing the possibility of establishing special courts where e-toll non-payers could be prosecuted, it was reported on Monday. Justice department spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga reportedly said Sanral had asked for such a
Offsite document storage specialist Metrofile has suffered a blaze at one of its records management facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, it told shareholders on Monday. Client data has been “affected” by the fire, which broke out on Friday evening and which was only contained by the following day. No injuries
High-flying IT services company EOH has acquired 100% of financial services software specialist Sybrin, which employs 150 people, for an amount neither party is disclosing. EOH, which is listed on the JSE with a market capitalisation of R8bn
You don’t get a more hardened hack than Jimi Matthews, who as cameraman and journalist for international media organisations during South Africa’s violent transition saw more bodies than is probably good for anyone. So what does the respected Matthews, who is now acting group executive
The markets recoiled at news that call termination rates between cellular operators will decrease, seeing it as a boon for consumers and small cellphone operators in particular. But experts say – citing supporting data – that South African cellphone communication is still too expensive
The process of monitoring South Africa’s consumer price inflation is going digital. Government’s statistics service, Stats SA, said on Friday that it has decided to “explore possible digital alternatives to the paper-based collection which currently informs the CPI”
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has warned companies that they will be reported to the authority’s complaints and compliance committee if they are found to be leasing telecommunications licences that have been issued to them
The user-pays principle to be implemented on Gauteng’s freeways was comparable to paying to use a toilet, transport minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday. “Those who use a facility, you pay R1 or R2. Those toilets need to be maintained. Would you pay [to use a] dirty toilet?” she asked
Eileen Wilton, Gijima’s long-serving interim CEO, has been named to the position on a permanent basis by the troubled IT company’s board of directors. Wilton, who previously held the position of chief information officer at both Old Mutual and Anglo American, was acting
