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Communications minister Roy Padayachie has finally moved to fill the vacant director-generalship at the department of communications. He has appointed Rosey Sekese as DG for five years, with effect from 1 June
Mobile marketing and advertising spend in SA will reach R1bn/year by 2012, according to a new study. Mobile advertising revenues were about R500m in the past year. Year-on-year growth trends suggest this figure
Companies should not take the Consumer Protection Act lightly in the hope that government will not be able to enforce the legislation, a legal expert has warned. Roger Knowles, speaking at Dimension Data’s Accelerate conference
Telkom faces a skills crisis after granting more than 1 500 voluntary severance packages to experienced workers, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. “In more than 57% of the applications which were approved
Telkom has finally confirmed officially that it’s in the process of upgrading most of its 512kbit/s asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) users to 1Mbit/s. The telecommunications operator says it began upgrading the lines speeds
Microsoft SA is about to embark on a second phase of its R475m black economic empowerment “equity equivalence” investment programme and is looking for as many as five black-owned independent software vendors
Dark Fibre Africa has switched on a new, R350m fibre system linking Gauteng and Mtunzini on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, saying the new route should put renewed downward pressure on broadband prices. The route is the
Two separate announcements on Wednesday morning demonstrate that competitive rivalry continues to intensify in SA’s fixed-line broadband market. In the first announcement, MWeb has announced it will not charge its
Counterfeit card fraud, especially as a result of card skimming, is on the increase again, according to the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric). And consumers with chip-and-pin cards shouldn’t assume they are protected