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If SA consumers are ever to enjoy high-speed Internet access delivered over fibre-optic cables into their homes, government will need to assist the telecommunications industry to build the infrastructure and Internet service providers will have to do a better job of educating customers about the potential of

An information and communications technology hub is to be developed at Nasrec in Gauteng, the provincial government said on Monday. Several major international and local investors had committed themselves to the development, which would become an ICT

Internal auditors have blown the whistle on a R72,6m IT contract negotiated by the department of human settlements, claiming that the deal ignored mandatory tender procedures. They also raised a red flag over a perceived conflict of interests — the department’s top IT official was previously employed by the favoured contractor

Standard Bank caused a bit of a furore on Twitter on Thursday when it tweeted that it had lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over an advertisement competitor First National Bank placed in weekend newspapers. It accused its rival of “misleading advertising”. Although the bank says filing the complaint

Consumers can now purchase applications in the Samsung Apps Store for Android using premium SMS rather than a credit card. The company hopes this will encourage users without credit cards, or those reluctant to use one for application purchases, to use the store. “Until now, the only way to purchase from

A good way to think of the computer industry is to see it as a series of platform wars. When a new computing platform is still young, many different systems fight it out until one or two standards emerge. Data from Asymco, a consultancy, illustrates that this was the case with the personal computer and is now

Telkom should be structurally separated into two businesses, wholesale and retail, to facilitate greater competition in SA’s telecommunications industry, says new Democratic Alliance (DA) shadow communications minister Marian Shinn. Speaking to TechCentral in her first wide-ranging media interview

TopTV chairman and acting CEO Eddie Mbalo is “shocked” that the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants to introduce new pay-TV operators just a few years after licensing a range of new players, one of which collapsed. “I’m shocked that after having awarded these new licences

JSE-listed telecommunications distribution specialist Blue Label Telecoms generated R795m in cash from operating activities in the six months to 30 November 2011, helping push accumulated cash resources on its balance sheet to R2,3bn and giving the company a war chest for its offshore expansion plans

With the announcement about whether SA or Australia will host the core site of the giant Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope expected on 4 April, the likelihood of the project coming to SA has received a boost from finance minister Pravin Gordhan, who says the project will qualify for “VAT relief”