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Sentech says its national broadband network will cost between R1,1bn and R1,2bn over the next three years, leaving the company short of R250m in financing to build the infrastructure. The state-owned company has set aside

JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Altech has warned its profits in its financial year to 28 February 2011 will take a hit, in part as a result of poor economic conditions and a write-down in goodwill

The digital dividend is set to disrupt global competitive practices in the telecommunications sector, and Europe may be the litmus test of how the rest of the world should consider the valuable spectrum assignments. But dangers are lurking

Sentech should concentrate on building SA’s digital terrestrial television broadcasting network and forget about trying to involve itself, again, in building a national broadband telecommunications network

The launch of the SA-backed US$250m New Dawn satellite has been rescheduled after an aborted first attempt at the end of March. The satellite, which will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, will take off from a spaceport

Asher Bohbot, CEO of fast-growing JSE-listed IT group EOH, has downplayed the potential threat posed by telecommunications operators wanting to muscle into the business technology services market. As convergence

Cell C is ratcheting up its marketing war with rival Vodacom, launching a new advertising campaign targeting the latter’s rebranding to the red identity of its parent Vodafone. But Vodacom has already hit back, filing a complaint

With much of Europe already on the road to switching off analogue television broadcasts in favour of digital, countries in the region are already actively looking to auction spectrum in the so-called “digital dividend” spectrum band

Telecommunications operator Neotel is worried about radio frequency spectrum interference from television broadcasters during the switchover period from analogue to digital terrestrial television. Neotel is

Dimension Data subsidiary Plessey has won a R20m contract to install and maintain 11 regeneration sites on Dark Fibre Africa’s fibre cable linking Empangeni on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast and Pretoria in Gauteng