The department of home affairs has backed down from its plan to fast-track legislation that would force Internet service providers to implement a blanket ban on online pornography. The department met on Thursday morning
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Cell C plans to fight to use the term “4Gs” in its marketing campaign, saying the complaint by its competitors amounts to “corporate bullying”. The mobile operator will appeal against
Cell C’s advertising campaign promoting its new high-speed data network has hit a roadblock. The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the operator can no longer use the term “4Gs”. This follows a complaint lodged by Cell C
MWeb, the company that introduced SA’s first relatively affordable uncapped products, has now unveiled an uncapped and completely unshaped 10Mbit/s option aimed at business customers. The product, which costs R4 999/month
JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec has agreed to buy up the 2,6% of its subsidiary Westcon, which it does not own already, for US$14,2m. The group says the transaction will be conducted through Westcon itself
Telkom has lost one of its most senior executives in a car accident. Sammy Gumbe, 42, managing executive for IT systems, passed away on Wednesday. Details of the accident are still sketchy. Gumbe, who had an master of business leadership and a
MTN chief marketing officer Santie Botha has quit after seven years at the cellphone group. She’s leaving to “pursue new endeavours”, according to a statement. Botha was appointed to MTN’s board in 2003
Cell C has switched on its third-generation mobile broadband network in KwaZulu-Natal, launching commercial services in Durban and Pietermaritzburg.
London- and Johannesburg-listed IT group Dimension Data is stepping up its presence in New Zealand with the acquisition, for an undisclosed amount, of IT services business Integral Axon Computer Services. The private held company
Robert Gumede, the billionaire businessman and chairman of technology group Gijima, has bought up just under half of Johannesburg’s Golden Lions Rugby Union. Gumede has joined forces with long-time family friend, businessman Ivor Ichikowitz