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A hotel in Sandton has been connected to the Internet at speeds of 2Gbit/s, or 2 000 times faster than an average 1Mbit/s home connection, thanks to Dark Fibre Africa, a terrestrial fibre company, and Seacom, the submarine cable provider. However, the connection is temporary
Fast-growing JSE-listed IT services group EOH has acquired Siemens IT Solutions and Services SA for an undisclosed amount of money. The move is in line with Siemens AG’s objective of exiting the global IT services market, EOH says in a statement. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. According
Wholesale Internet access provider Sat-Space Africa has launched a new product it hopes will drive up Internet penetration in rural areas. Its Satellite Hot Spot product, launched last week, allows entrepreneurs in outlying areas to buy and resell uncapped Internet connectivity in increments of an hour. Connectivity, which is
Cabinet has given the nod for revised broad-based black economic empowerment “codes of good practice” to be published for public comment. “The revised codes will enhance the implementation of B-BBEE in a meaningful and sustainable manner,” government spokesman Jimmy Manyi told reporters after cabinet’s
Scientists were preparing to send Curiosity on its first test drive over the billion-year-old rocks of Mars and said a busted wind sensor wouldn’t jeopardise its mission of determining whether life could exist there. Engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena turned four of the rover’s six wheels
New players in the SA television market should only be allowed to begin operating after the country has successfully made the migration from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting, the SABC says. The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) should consider the implications
MultiChoice subsidiary M-Net wants access to more radio frequency spectrum than it has provisionally been allocated in the draft digital terrestrial television (DTT) regulations, it said at Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) hearings on
JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has hiked its full-year dividend by 64% to 23c/share for the 12 months ended 31 May 2012 after it brought in cash from operations of R528m. Despite spending R800m in the 2012 financial year, including buying out Microsoft’s minority
Eskom is mulling the wisdom of demanding tariff increases that will make the electricity price fully cost-reflective in five years, the utility said on Tuesday. “That is what we in Eskom are discussing at the moment,” finance chief Paul O’Flaherty said on the sidelines of a briefing to parliament’s portfolio committee on
The contract of national consumer commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi will not be renewed by trade & industry minister Rob Davies, his department said on Monday. Mohlala-Mulaudzi’s attorneys were notified of the decision on 17 August, and her contract would expire on 3 September, the department
