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Multinational consulting and managed services company, the Birchman Group, is entering SA’s telecommunications market with plans, eventually, to invest billions of rand in a national wholesale fibre-optic network to connect small, medium and large enterprises to high-speed broadband. The company, which has

Core Group, which distributes Apple products in SA, has cut the price of the iPad 2 by as much as R1 400, fuelling rumours that the third-generation iPad, launched this week by Apple CEO Tim Cook, could go on sale in the country in the next few months. Prices of all iPad 2’s have been cut, with reductions of between

Telkom and KT Corp are inching closer to a deal. The SA fixed-line operator told shareholders on Friday that a diagnostic review has now been “substantially completed” that could result in the Korean company buying a significant minority stake in the company. Telkom first announced the talks

The ANC’s policy discussion document on communications, which was released this week, contains proposals that could result in the rationalising of state institutions that overlap in their mandates. The policy document proposes the merging of Sentech, the state broadcasting signal

The rights of women to equality and human dignity trumped TopTV’s right to freedom of expression. This is one of the main reasons the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) decided not to allow TopTV to launch adult-orientated channels on its satellite pay-TV platform. Icasa finally published its

Despite the costs and manpower it’s supposed to save, cloud computing will lead to the creation of 68 000 new jobs in SA this year, and a further 82 000 in 2013, a new research study predicts. The research, conducted by analyst firm IDC on behalf of Microsoft, suggests the effect will be more pronounced with

With 28% of senior management positions held by women in 2012, SA does better than the global average, a survey has found. “The fact that SA’s women are strongly represented in senior management relative to many other parts of the world, says a lot about the progress the country has made

MTN SA urgently requires access to spectrum bands that will allow it to build a commercial network using next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) technology and MD Karel Pienaar believes the operator should be given early access ahead of a formal spectrum licensing process by the Independent Communications

JSE-listed telecommunications group MTN has made sweeping changes to its top management structure, doing away with its regional vice-president positions and creating a new position of group chief operating executive, to be headed by Ahmad Farroukh. Farroukh, a former CEO of MTN’s Nigerian operation who

Nashua Mobile is to offer Nokia handsets with unlimited e-mail, Internet browsing, social networking and instant messaging for a fixed rate of R59/month in a move clearly aimed at Nokia rival Research in Motion, whose BlackBerry smartphones are available on