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Investors have expressed keen interest in a undersea broadband cable that would link Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA (the Brics countries) to each other and the US, a promoter of the project said on Thursday. “There have been many parties showing interest in the Brics cable project. To date, a total of
Telkom services in Springs on Gauteng’s East Rand have been disrupted following multiple cable theft in the area, the fixed-line operator said on Thursday. More than 1 000 corporate and residential customers have been affected. “On Wednesday, 6 June, cable thieves broke into
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has made his next big move after dropping a pricing bomb on his rivals in the prepaid market. The cellular operator is introducing variable-term contracts and slashing the cost of calls for post-paid subscribers. The company is introducing six new products
Former MTN Group president and CEO Phuthuma Nhleko has again rubbished allegations that either he or the telecommunications operator paid bribes to secure an operating licence in Iran. In a statement, Nhleko says the allegations, made by Turkcell, are without foundation
Telkom has launched a mobile application for tablet computers that allows people to review its financial data. Called the Telkom Financial Reports App, the application is available for tablets running Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems and is free to download and use. The app was designed and
Communications minister Dina Pule said on Wednesday that the set-top boxes that will be subsidised for poorer households will get a “return path” to provide basic Internet access. She made the announcement at the department of communications’ ICT Indaba in Cape Town. South Africans will
The Hawks were investigating allegations of corruption at MTN relating to a mobile licence in Iran, an official said on Tuesday. “There are allegations. We first did an assessment to cast the strength of the allegations. After this we decided to do a follow-up investigation,” spokesman McIntosh Polela said
Less than a week after cabinet said it would not support a proposed deal to sell 20% of Telkom’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe has told delegates at the inaugural ICT Indaba in Cape Town that SA can learn from the Asian economic powerhouse
JSE-listed Africa Cellular Towers (ACT) has been placed into provisional liquidation after a major unnamed creditor was granted an order for the liquidation on Friday, 1 June. In a statement issued through the JSE’s Sens news service, ACT told shareholders on Monday that the company had been placed into
Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions has been granted access to a chunk of radio frequency spectrum in the 28GHz band, which it says will allow it to offer high-speed wireless point-to-multipoint services. The company says the spectrum is a suitable interim alternative to spectrum in the contested 2,6GHz and
