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Motorists who do not register for e-tags will pay a three times higher punitive rate for using Gauteng’s new toll roads, the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) said on Monday. “Users who do not register, or who do not have valid and operational e-tags and who do not
With the explosion of tablets and smartphones, employees increasingly want to use their own devices in the workplace. This is leading to a consumerisation of enterprise IT but there are many misconceptions about it and its implications for companies, a new report has found. The biggest misconception is that companies are resisting the trend
JSE-listed technology group Altech expects headline earnings per share for the year ended February 2012 to be as much as 30% lower against a year ago as problems at its operations outside SA continue to weigh on the group’s financial performance. Altech says headline earnings per share will decline by between 24% and 30% as a result
MTN’s Turkish rival, Turkcell, which is suing the Johannesburg-based cellphone giant for US$4,2bn, is embroiled in a bitter internal battle as shareholders square up for control of the company. Turkcell, listed in New York and Istanbul, has a market capitalisation of $11bn. In court papers filed in the US recently, Turkcell accused
The battle for the soul of the SABC ahead of the ANC’s elective conference in Mangaung has plunged the public broadcaster into yet another crisis over control of its editorial content. After SABC news chief Phil Molefe was this week placed on special leave after refusing to give CEO Lulama Mokhobo a copy of the daily news diary so she could monitor the
Gauteng’s e-toll registration outlets were empty on Thursday with virtually no one registering for e-tags, despite the looming 30 April deadline, when the tolls go live. The bright orange e-toll registration outlets, operated by the SA National Roads Agency Ltd (Sanral), are in shopping malls and alongside highways across Gauteng for
A new research study has found that SA has some of the least affordable prepaid mobile tariffs on the continent and is falling behind many of its neighbours because of high wholesale call rates between operators. The findings are contained in a Research ICT Africa policy brief, with research conducted over the past year
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia on Thursday released its Asha range of handsets in the SA market at fairly aggressive price points. The feature phones — which arguably could be described as entry-level smartphones — could help Nokia regain some of the market share it has lost to entry-level Android
SA will switch on digital terrestrial television services “around” September, starting a period of “dual illumination” of both analogue and digital signals, communications minister Dina Pule said in a statement on Thursday. Pule said Sentech, the state-owned company charged with deploying the broadcasting
MTN has again gone on the attack, accusing rival Turkcell of making “ludicrous” allegations that the SA-based operator influenced SA foreign policy on Iran in order to win an operating licence in the Middle Eastern country. In a statement, MTN Group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa says MTN “did not cause
