Data centre specialist Teraco Data Environments intends to invest nearly R300m in new data centres in the next 24 months on the back of escalating demand for cloud computing services. It is also looking to build data centres
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Incredible Connection, SA’s largest IT retailer, has stepped into the broadband business. It’s offering consumers who buy a laptop or desktop computer in its stores up to 65GB of “free” fixed-line bandwidth. The retailer has launched the offer
JSE-listed outsourcing specialist, the Dialogue Group, has sold its 51% stake in disaster recovery firm ContinuitySA for R35m. CoroCapital, the investment banking firm and subsidiary of Coronation
Nigerian company Zinox Technologies, in which JSE-listed Mustek has a 12% stake, has landed a deal worth R1bn for voter registration machines. Zinox must supply 132 000 machines to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission
The ANC wants to incentivise mobile operators to “refarm” the spectrum they use for voice to provide broadband services in rural areas. The ruling party’s latest weekly newsletter says that without “serious intervention” SA will not
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has released a unflattering report showing that mobile operators’ networks performed below par at stadiums during the 2010 soccer World Cup. Icasa released its report this week
Former communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda has reportedly declined a high-profile diplomatic posting as SA’s ambassador to Germany. Talk Radio 702 reported on Monday that Nyanda was asked to take over the position from Eddie Funde
Sixteen Chinese workers subcontracted to build cellphone company Cell C’s high-speed mobile broadbad network were detained in Durban for allegedly having invalid work permits, the home affairs department said on Sunday.
The ANC is discussing claims that it owes JSE-listed IT group Gijima R29m, the party said on Sunday. “The matter of the money still owed is receiving attention at the highest level of the organisation
Cell C will switch on its next-generation broadband mobile network in Johannesburg and Pretoria next week, the network operator has confirmed. It will launch the network next Wednesday, 17 November, in the country’s most populous region.