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SA’s top online stores have all enjoyed marked growth over the same period last year, with some reporting up to 40% year-on-year sales increases. However, an analyst says the performance could

Europe’s SES group, which operates a worldwide fleet of more than 40 communications satellites, is establishing a bigger presence in SA ahead of the launch later this year of a new, high-capacity satellite

Yet another undersea cable has been commissioned for the coast of Africa. When it’s built next year, it will bring total capacity encircling the continent to more than 20,2Tbit/s. In the year 2000 Africa’s total international

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) suspects that a syndicate is stealing Sim cards from the city’s hi-tech traffic lights, and using them to run up phone bills. More than 400 of the city’s 600 hi-tech traffic lights

It’s official! SA will adopt the European standard for digital terrestrial television, TechCentral can reveal exclusively. Furthermore, the country will implement the second generation of the standard, known as DVB-T2

There is little risk of MTN creating two centres of power, one around CEO-designate Sifiso Dabengwa and the other around the still-to-be-appointed CEO of MTN International. That’s the view of Kristoff Puelinckx

Vodacom SA MD Shameel Joosub is poised to take a senior position at Vodafone España, TechCentral has established from two sources close to the SA cellular network operator. TechCentral reported on Monday that Joosub would leave Vodacom soon to take up a senior position at Vodafone in Europe

Vodacom and the minority shareholder in its subsidiary in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congolese Wireless Network (CWN), have agreed to appoint NM Rothschild & Sons to explore options for Vodacom Congo. Vodacom and CWN have

Vodacom appears to be about to lose one of its most senior executives, its SA MD Shameel Joosub, to parent Vodafone. TechCentral has learnt that Joosub is poised to take up a senior-level position at

MTN has appointed former World Cup Organising Committee chief communications officer Rich Mkhondo as the new head of its corporate affairs department. He replaces Nozipho January-Bardill