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Losses at state-owned Broadband Infraco have widened substantially in the past year, with revenue collapsing by 40% on account of reduced business from the company’s largest customer, Neotel. Higher staff costs and increased network maintenance costs have hit the bottom line
US-based on-demand private driver service Uber has begun offering its services in Johannesburg and plans to begin operations in Cape Town soon. The company began listing Johannesburg drivers on Wednesday this week. Uber connects drivers
Newspaper group Times Media has sold its electronic news wire and finance information service I-Net Bridge to rival McGregor BFA, which is owned by Naspers, for R115m. “I-Net’s future prospects are dependent on being able to compete in a relatively small, proprietary market
Licensed telecommunications operators interested in gaining access to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper-cable infrastructure into homes and businesses have been given insight this week into how the industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
Just days after saying it would hold off on publishing draft regulations on unbundling Telkom’s local loop, so as to give new communications minister Yunus Carrim a chance to review them, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has staged an about-turn and
Open-access telecommunications infrastructure company FibreCo is turning its attention to its next big project after completing construction of a fibre-optic link between Johannesburg and East London. The 1 000km Johannesburg to East London route, which follows
The notion that a Vodacom employee could seek compensation for the idea for the “Please call me” service was “foreign”, former group CEO Alan Knott-Craig testified on Wednesday. “[At Vodacom] we did try and run a company based on respect
Former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig was accused of being evasive on Wednesday when asked if MTN planned to sue the company for stealing the “Please call me” idea. “Your worship, the witness is being evasive about it,” Cedric Puckrin, acting for former Vodacom
Controversy-plagued former communications minister Dina Pule has been appointed to parliament’s portfolio committee on transport. This is despite the fact that Pule faces a number of ongoing investigations into allegations of corruption and nepotism
Two unions representing workers at the SABC have filed a dispute with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)…
