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The eNews Channel, the 24-hour television news service available on MultiChoice’s DStv platform, will launch on the Sky digital satellite platform in the UK in coming weeks. The service will target the sizeable expatriate community. A launch date has not yet been confirmed. Sky has more than 10m subscribers in the UK
The supposedly confidential document that Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) councillor William Stucke allegedly “leaked” to an unnamed industry body, prompting a strongly worded statement of condemnation from Telkom on
Telkom is “gravely concerned” about the alleged leak of information from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) of a supposedly confidential findings-and-recommendations document by the authority’s complaints and compliance committee to an industry body. In a strongly worded media statement
The wait for SA consumers wanting to try super-fast, next-generation mobile broadband will soon be over. MTN will probably launch a commercial next-generation broadband network based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology, offering consumers significantly faster access to the Internet, in the fourth quarter of this year
SAP, the world’s largest developer of business management software, believes Africa will be its fastest-growing market over the next five years and the company, which is headquartered in Germany, plans to pour money into the continent to ensure its business in key markets grows to US$1bn/year by 2017. SAP co-CEO
Technology industry players have begun expressing reservations about the lack of a transition period and confusion as to whether existing black economic empowerment (BEE) compliance documents remain applicable following the publication in June of the BEE charter for the sector. Various ICT players
An SA team helped Nasa to land the Curiosity rover on Mars, the SA National Space Agency (Sansa) said on Tuesday. The agency was proud to be part of Monday’s historic touch-down on the red planet, international business manager Tiaan Strydom said. “This is one of the most important explorations of space by one
The Competition Tribunal has fined Telkom R449m for abusing its dominance in the telecommunications industry over a five-year period between 1999 and 2004. “The tribunal concluded that Telkom leveraged its upstream monopoly in the facilities market to advantage its own subsidiary in the competitive value-added network
After more than eight years of investigation, Telkom’s day of reckoning has arrived. The Competition Tribunal will on Tuesday rule on allegations of anticompetitive behaviour by the incumbent fixed-line operator. If found guilty, the tribunal could impose a fine on the company of more than R1bn
A analysis of the annual reports of SA’s top technology companies – those with a market capitalisation above R1bn – show that Datatec CEO Jens Montanana is the highest paid CEO, at least among companies listed on the JSE. Montanana pipped MTN Group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa to the post, earning nearly US$3m in salary
