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Communications minister Dina Pule has appointed a new board for the controversy-plagued Universal Service & Access Agency of SA (Usaasa), the state-owned agency that is charged with ensuring all South Africans have access to communications

JSE-listed telecommunications operator Telkom has begun rolling out fixed broadband connections offering speeds of up to 40Mbit/s on a trial basis in selected areas in Gauteng, Durban and Cape Town. The pilot, which will run until

Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn has reiterated her call for the public protector to investigate allegations surrounding the ICT Indaba held earlier this year and alleged conflicts of interest involving

SA as the major location for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope changes the character of Africa, minister of science & technology Naledi Pandor said on Friday. “Who comes to Africa to actually do their best research? People come here to examine us, to find out

Telkom has decided it will appeal against the judgment imposed on it earlier this month by the Competition Tribunal. The tribunal found Telkom guilty of anticompetitive behaviour and stifling opposition between 1999 and 2004 and fined the company R449m. Telkom announced its attention to appeal

SA’s education system could be more successful if it invested in teaching pupils to play chess, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said in Johannesburg on Thursday. “Chess is a great educational tool … it helps kids to build universal skills, it is [about] mental discipline, it is logic and it is

The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) has launched the Youth Technology Innovation Fund which is designed to create projects for the agency and foster interest in technology and innovation in the youth in SA. The fund is a new funding instrument introduced at the end of last year when a call for proposals

Cell C has announced that it is cutting call rates to a further 177 countries after introducing a 99c/minute rate to 50 countries in recent months. “We have spent a great deal of time negotiating better termination rates with our international partners. The termination rates, or rates charged by other operators to

Trade & industry minister Rob Davies has appointed a new acting national consumer commissioner, the department said on Thursday. Davies appointed Ebrahim Mohammed, the deputy national consumer commissioner, into the new role, according to a statement issued by the department. The appointment will bypass

JSE-listed technology group Altech has entered into a formal business relationship with China’s Huawei. Under the “value-added partner” agreement, Altech will provide Huawei Enterprise products, services and support in countries across Southern and East