The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) needs R12m for software before it can auction the spectrum in 2,6GHz and 3,5GHz. The authority presented its medium-term strategy to the parliamentary portfolio
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Telkom’s new mobile arm, 8ta, is upping the ante in SA’s increasingly competitive mobile market, launching “free” mobile YouTube streaming to BlackBerry devices and free and unlimited calls
Altech CEO Craig Venter says the group’s appointment of former acting group Telkom CEO Jeffrey Hedberg as its chief operating officer from 1 July will help propel it onto the “world stage” in
The national fibre network partnership between Cell C, Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners is on track to complete its first phase by the end of next year. Arif Hussain, CEO of FibreCo, says good progress
AltX-listed Vox Telecom says there is still a good three years of life left in the least-cost routing (LCR) market. This is despite the big cuts in mobile and fixed-line termination rates, the rates that
AltX-listed Vox Telecom has been dealt knock to earnings by lower interconnection rates. The company has released its interim results for the six months ended 28 February, showing headline earnings down
Former Telkom acting group CEO Jeffrey Hedberg is taking over as chief operating officer at JSE-listed technology group Altech. The former Cell C CEO, who joined Telkom as head of subsidiary Multi-Links in November 2009, will join
Set-top box manufacturer and Altech subsidiary UEC has unveiled a 25% (plus one share) empowerment deal with three black-led investment businesses. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed
The first submarine fibre system to serve SA along Africa’s west coast in nine years came ashore at Yzerfontein, north of Cape Town, on Tuesday morning. The 14 000km-long West African Cable System (Wacs), with a design capacity
Cell C will ask the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to review its decision to find in favour of a complaint lodged by Vodacom against the former’s new advertising campaign. Cell C was last week forced to pull the campaign