Browsing: News

The Advertising Standards Authority has overturned a previous decision that Vodacom may no longer use the term “broadband” in advertising for its third-generation mobile network. Earlier this year, the authority told Vodacom to remove all references

Themba Dlamini, deputy director-general of the department of science & technology, has been appointed as the new CEO of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube made the announcement on Friday morning at the authority’s press conference on call termination rates.

Questions have been raised about the SA telecommunications and IT regulator’s complicity in allowing Global Web Intact (GWI) and Screamer to lease spectrum, apparently illegally, from Sentech. This follows the leaking of internal Sentech

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has introduced an asymmetric wholesale call termination regime that benefits smaller market players, including Cell C, Neotel and Telkom’s 8ta.

Faulty neon lighting on the Telkom Tower in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, is believed to be the cause of a fire that damaged to the structure’s giant soccer ball on Friday morning. The telecommunications company erected the ball earlier this year to mark the 2010 World Cup.

Government will use the development of communications infrastructure to boost employment in the country. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivered the country’s medium-term budget on Wednesday, reining in public spending and promising that infrastructure development would be used to meet government’s employment targets.

Cell C has made a pit stop in Polokwane in its race to hook up the country’s main towns and cities to its third-generation mobile network. Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province, will have 67% network coverage for now, slightly lower

The pressures of SA’s Sim card registration law appear to have eased for mobile operator MTN, which released its subscriber numbers for its third financial quarter on Thursday. The group’s figures for SA show an increase of 3,9% to 17,7m

A consortium of IT professionals representing global big business have formed an alliance to find a way of bringing cloud computing into the business environment in a more structured way that prevents lock-in to any one computing supplier.

The Internet Service Providers’ Association of SA (Ispa) has teamed up with the SA Police Service and the Film and Publications Board to combat child pornography in SA. Ispa regulatory advisor Dominic Cull says