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A analysis of the annual reports of SA’s top technology companies – those with a market capitalisation above R1bn – show that Datatec CEO Jens Montanana is the highest paid CEO, at least among companies listed on the JSE. Montanana pipped MTN Group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa to the post, earning nearly US$3m in salary
SA’s fourth mobile operator, Telkom-owned 8ta, is upending its prepaid tariff model, ditching the plans it’s had in place since its launch nearly two years ago and introducing new rewards-based tariffs clearly designed to improve the loss-making brand’s average revenue per user (Arpu). 8ta senior managing
Government has not yet made any decisions about whether it will buy out minority shareholders in Telkom and delist the telecommunications company from the JSE and discussions about the company’s future remain “exploratory”. That’s the
Auditor-general Terence Nombembe has cleared communications minister Dina Pule of wrongdoing around the recent ICT Indaba hosted by the department of communications, the department said in a statement on Friday. This follows a series of reports in the Sunday Times in June and July in which it was
State-owned telecommunications infrastructure company Broadband Infraco has reduced its net losses in the 2012 financial year ended 31 March 2012, reporting a loss for the year of R95m against a loss of R206m in the 2011 financial year.
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The labour court in Johannesburg on Thursday set aside a labour department decision to deregister the Communication Workers Union (CUW). The court further stopped the department from publishing the deregistration of the union in the Government Gazette after an urgent interdict by the CWU. The CWU and the department
Intelsat 20, a new communications satellite that will serve the future needs of MultiChoice, which owns pay-TV service DStv, blasted successfully into space overnight aboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle from Kourou in French Guiana. Lift-off occured at 10.54pm SA time on Thursday night. At 28 minutes after launch, at
Cabinet has approved a new bill that will allow government to take action in civil courts against people who dodge e-tolls, The Star newspaper reported on Friday. The Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill was approved by cabinet in anticipation of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), which
Having read that Absa would not be making an official banking application available until the end of the year or early in 2013, Johannesburg-based developer and entrepreneur Tyler Reed, frustrated at the time it is taking the bank to develop the app, has opted to make his own. Essentially a “wrapper” for Absa’s
The Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (Dalro) has partnered with local tablet computer maker Wise to create a digital platform called EduPortal that offers schools pupils access to digital textbooks by means of subscription. Although teachers have welcomed the idea, they argue the subscription
