Seacom says it still hasn’t finalised the last stretch of its undersea cable through the Red Sea in Egypt, a fact that has bedevilled the telecommunications system. A fault on the Seacom cable between Mumbai in India and Mombasa in Kenya plunged SA businesses and consumers into Internet darkness on Monday, with repairs expected to take at least a week to complete. Seacom suffered similar downtime in April when a segment
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A problem on the Seacom submarine cable system caused extensive downtime for SA Internet users on Monday. The bad news…
Seacom may soon cut international bandwidth prices. The cable operator’s first anniversary this month also marks the end of price-cutting restrictions placed on it by some of its anchor tenants. Brian Herlihy, Seacom’s president, says the agreement with anchor tenants — other telecommunications companies — ends on Seacom’s one-year anniversary on 23 July
MultiChoice is cementing its dominance in local sports broadcasting. Its subsidiary, SuperSport, will launch a new, dedicated, high-definition football channel,…
West African undersea cable Main One has gone live two weeks before schedule. The 1,92Gbit/s cable links Nigeria to Portugal,…
The controversial Elephant Consortium is being unwound, with the beneficiaries, including former communications department director-general Andile Ngcaba, potentially earning a…
Stephen Mncube, the newly inaugurated chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), says his plan is to focus…
Airports Company SA has confirmed a network failure across OR Tambo International airport disrupted passenger check-ins on Thursday. The delays…
JSE-listed technology group GijimaAst wants to change its registered name, and has called a general meeting of shareholders for Monday,…
Former iBurst MD Alan Knott-Craig Jr has acquired 50% of Arc Telecommunications, a company led by former iBurst commercial head…