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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project in SA plans to work with IBM to develop a “big data” analytics platform with self-tuning and self-learning capabilities to analyse large volumes of radio astronomy data. The proposed software may
Thousands of Telkom employees appealed to the competition authorities on Tuesday to take their job security into account before penalising their employer, trade union Solidarity said. The Competition Commission has asked the Competition Tribunal to find Telkom guilty of excessive pricing and market abuse
Government should place a “moratorium” on the construction of new copper-cable infrastructure for telecommunications by no later than the end of 2015, says fibre lobby group FTTH Council Africa. “We believe the department of communications needs to consider the future of broadband penetration and to place a deadline on the deployment
Telkom could pay as much as R885m/year more in spectrum licence fees if new proposals by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) are adopted. Under Icasa’s proposed new fee structure, Telkom and other bulk users of spectrum — they include Transnet, Eskom, the SA National Defence Force and
SA’s largest cinema chain, Ster-Kinekor Theatres, which is owned by Primedia, has decided to end its decades-long advertising in print newspapers, directing its clients to the Web and to mobile instead, according to a report. iAfrica.com, also a Primedia property, said on Tuesday that
Eskom’s services will not be disrupted on Wednesday as a result of the nationwide strike against e-tolling and labouring broking planned by trade union federation Cosatu, the parastatal said. “The section of the Labour Relations Act that allows for this [industrial action] is only for workers not involved in essential services
John Holdsworth is known for giving SA’s mobile operators a hard time. As former CEO of ECN Telecommunications (now Nashua ECN), he was the biggest proponent of and lobbyist for the lowering of the wholesale fees the operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks. But now Holdsworth has come
JSE-listed technology group Gijima has lost half of its desktop outsourcing project with Absa, with about 50% of a long-running desktop services contract to be “in-sourced” to the banking group. Absa is one Gijima’s biggest clients and the deal is worth about R200m/year top the IT group
Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung says its instant messaging service, ChatOn, is now available on Apple and BlackBerry devices. The application is already available for Samsung’s Bada operating system and for Google’s Android platform. Samsung SA MD Deon Liebenberg says ChatOn is now available
The Independent Communications Authority of SA’s (Icasa’s) proposals for licensing high-demand broadband spectrum are “fundamentally out of line with international best practice”, the GSM Association (GSMA) has warned in a submission to the authority. The GSMA is a powerful industry lobby group
