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Altech CEO Craig Venter believes East Africa remains a powerful opportunity despite the region dragging down the JSE-listed technology group’s results in the six months to the end of August. The East Africa business reported an operating loss

Sitting at your desk doing Internet banking may make you feel safe. After all, it is not a bank, where someone can steal your bulging wallet when you step outside. But that friendly e-mail claiming to be from your bank and asking you for your details could cost you and

Profits at JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Altech have fallen sharply in the six months to 31 August as a result, in large part, of pressure on its once high-flying operations in East Africa. Profit for the period was R137m, down from R232m a year

Broadband, whether fixed or mobile, should be billed on a per-usage basis or via reasonably priced bundles, but under no circumstances should be uncapped, says Altech Technology Concepts CEO Wayne de Nobrega. “The idea of uncapped is

Wandile Tutani has been appointed as chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s Complaints and Compliance Committee, the broadcasting and telecommunications regulator has announced. Tutani, an attorney with experience in the technology

From 1 October until the end of January, MTN customers subscribed to its uncapped data packages will not be subjected to speed restrictions when they exceed “fair-use” limits, the cellular network operator has confirmed. MTN first introduced its “Uncapped Lite” and

With all its rivals focusing their tablet computing offerings squarely at consumers, networking giant Cisco is taking a bet that its tablet offering, the Cius, will appeal to the corporate set. The product, which is now on sale in SA, is only available to business customers

SA software company PeoplePlus believes too many local companies are paying for business software services they don’t need. It wants to change this flaw that it thinks exists with free basic online human resources (HR) and payroll software. Premium features are

TelkomInternet, Telkom’s Internet service provider, is raising the bandwidth caps it imposes on its AllAccess customers as competition intensifies. In July, the company announced a promotion for its “data hungry” customers in which the monthly data cap on 1GB

Mobile operators are struggling to keep up with demand for data services on their networks. The solution, according to networking giant Cisco, may lie in rolling out ubiquitous Wi-Fi networks that seamlessly “offload” mobile users to them