Vodacom expects to boost headline earnings per share by between 30% and 40% in its financial results in the six months to 30 September 2010. Impairment charges related to its acquisition of Gateway, which hit basic earnings a year ago, were not repeated during the half year
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Privately held telecommunications company iBurst is investing more than R100m in a fibre-optic communications network in Gauteng to help it better address the corporate market and grow its retail consumer subscriber base. The company is leasing capacity on Dark Fibre Africa’s network
Newly appointed Democratic Alliance shadow communications minister Natasha Michael has slammed communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda, criticising his leadership style and saying he ought to be “removed from his cabinet position” if the cabinet is reshuffled.
SA’s neglect of access networks for providing broadband connectivity has resulted in the country slipping in a world quality broadband ranking study conducted by Oxford University with US networking company Cisco. It’s the third study by the university
Less than 5% of the world’s Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses remain unallocated, the Number Resource Organization (NRO) warned on Monday. The IPv4 free pool dipped below 10% in January, just nine months ago. Since then, more than 200m IPv4 addresses
Mustek has rejected a R101m offer from Datatec for distribution business Comztek, in which it holds a 41,8% stake. Datatec first announced its offer to buy Comztek at the beginning of September, offering R97m in its initial bid
Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt has used a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s City Press newspaper to apologise for “confusion I may have caused” with the company’s controversial “4Gs” branding. At the same time, he has revealed that the operator will switch on
Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda said on Sunday that his former director-general Mamodupi Mohlala had “crossed the line” following a Sunday Independent report. “Nyanda believes Mohlala has now crossed the line
SA has again secured a seat on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) council at the plenipotentiary conference in Mexico, the department of communications said on Friday. “The appointment of SA to the ITU is a testimony that
Telkom has chosen a youthful engineer to lead its new mobile network, 8ta. Amith Maharaj, just 36 years old, joined Telkom from Vodacom in 2008 to spearhead the traditionally fixed-line operator’s move into the mobile market.