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
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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
Telkom has called on the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to bar telecommunications operators that have already been assigned access to spectrum at 900MHz — they include Vodacom, MTN and Cell C
Telkom has no immediate plans to launch uncapped broadband products based on its asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) copper network, despite growing competition in this space
Vodacom would like the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to delay a long-awaited auction of spectrum in the 2,6GHz band. Vodacom regulatory adviser Mortimer Hope says the spectrum