South Africans who do not have their Sim cards registered by the end of the day on Thursday will have their cellphone numbers deactivated. Rica is the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act, which
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Africa is getting its first Android-based tablet computer designed and engineered on the continent. No, the device isn’t the brainchild of a company in Johannesburg or Cape Town. Rather, it’s been developed in Congo-Brazzaville
Too little, too late.” This was the general reaction of Internet service providers, telecommunications companies and telecommunications analysts last week after the regulator released its discussion document
The department of home affairs settled out of court with IT company Gijima for a loss of R389m over the cancellation of its controversial contract, director-general Mkuseli Apleni said on Wednesday. The department thus
Telkom has appointed Jacques Schindehutte, until recently group financial director at Absa, as its new chief financial officer, replacing Peter Nelson, who resigned last year. He will take up the post on 1 August. Schindehutte, who helped oversee
With just a day left before mobile operators are forced to switch off customers that haven’t registered their Sim cards, only Telkom’s 8ta has completed the process. Deputy communications minister Obed Bapela said on Wednesday
Vodacom was the biggest brand spender on television advertising for the first four months of 2011, according to Ornico’s MediaTrac, which collects and analyses advertisements and brand publicity. Mobile operators spent “well over”
The long-running saga of Multi-Links, Telkom’s disastrous Nigerian investment, may finally be drawing to a close. The JSE-listed fixed-line operator has signed an agreement to sell Multi-Links to an affiliate company of Helios Towers
IT billionaire Robert Gumede, who is a substantial investor in JSE-listed IT group Gijima, and his long-time friend and business partner, Ivor Ichikowitz of defence and armaments group Paramount, have pulled the plug on their plan to
Despite turning in a R16,9m loss in the financial year to 28 February 2011 and facing a R30m lawsuit from MTN, JSE-listed telecommunications specialist Huge Group says it is confident it will survive the