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FibreCo, the fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure provider co-owned by Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, Cell C and Convergence Partners, will begin work on the next leg of its network in the next three months to link the coastal cities of East London, Cape Town and Durban. The company
Technology group Altech has appointed Robin Marsden and Richard Wingfield as executive for corporate finance and chief information officer respectively. Marsden has worked in SA and the US and has more than 15 years of board level experience. His previous positions include partner and head of mergers and
Cape Town motorists caught talking or sending text messages on their cellphones would be fined R5 000 and have their phone confiscated for a day, it was reported on Monday. The Cape Times reported that the new bylaw, in effect from Monday, formed part of the provincial road safety campaign to cut road
Westcon, the distribution arm of JSE-listed IT group Datatec, will acquire Iberian and Latin American multinational security, virtualisation and data centre distributor Afina Group in a deal worth as much as €50m (R516m). The deal is being done by way of Westcon’s acquisition
Vodacom has fired the latest shot in the ongoing price war in the mobile industry. The operator is offering existing prepaid customers the option of getting 60 minutes of talk time if they recharge for R5. However, the latest offer is a promotion only and expires at the end of July. Also, the
Absa’s online banking website was available only intermittently on Friday, with some users experiencing slow access and other users unable to access the service at all. This follows an interruption to services at the end of May which left many customers frustrated and saw the bank extend its clearing times
Vodacom’s long-running legal dispute with a fixer who recently won a case against it in a Democratic Republic of Congo court is still simmering. And accusations are being made of improper influence over the Congo’s judiciary. The Kinshasa Commercial Court ruled in January that Vodacom
Telkom is pushing up basic and broadband line rental fees as part of its annual tariff adjustments it files with its regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA. Monthly rental fees for its digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband products are being hiked to R165/month for
Microsoft has announced the commercial launch of its cloud productivity service, Office 365, in SA. Depending on the configuration users opt for, the service pricing starts at R46,50 per user per month and goes up to R170,75 for the full suite. Office 365 was launched in SA in November 2011 and has been available
Cell C is continuing with its price-cutting crusade, reducing the cost of calls to 99c/minute on per-second billing to 27 more countries from Sunday, 1 July. “Some of these tariffs to additional countries will be on a promotional basis, but are expected to become permanent tariffs by the end of July, once approved
