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The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is holding public hearings on Thursday to allow telecommunications operators to present their definitions of an “underserviced area”. The definitions are important because, under Icasa’s guidelines for future spectrum allocation
Bequester is a Johannesburg-based start-up that hopes to give small businesses the buying power of large ones. Launched as a public beta in November 2011, the site facilitates procurement deals between businesses that want products or services and those that can supply them. Founded by Thabo Makenete
Strong growth in demand for data, where revenues have risen by 23,8% in the past year, has helped propel the Vodacom Group’s total sales higher by 12,2% to R18bn in the third quarter of its financial year to 31 December 2011. The JSE-listed telecommunications operator has reported a 41,2% increase in
Telkom investors will welcome news that there will be continuity on the group’s board. Chairman Lazarus Zim has been reappointed to the position and his term of office will now end on 31 August or at the group’s 2013 annual general meeting, whichever is the earlier date. Zim was appointed
Telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), will conclude a study in the next 12 months that it says will determine the effect on retail prices of a decline in the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks. The fees
Altech CEO Craig Venter has taken umbrage at a report in the Sunday Times that questioned his leadership style and that implied it may be time for him to step down from the JSE-listed technology group. The article, published in the Business Times section of the newspaper on 29 January, said
Vodacom has cut data prices with a pair of new contract data promotions. The operator is offering all new and existing subscribers the option to sign up for one of two 24-month data packages, a 1GB or 2GB plan priced at R99/month and R149/month respectively. The Broadband Standard MyGig 1 entails
MTN’s head office in Fairland in north-western Johannesburg was evacuated on Monday morning following an apparent bomb scare. Employees have since returned to work after the threat was declared a hoax. Employees began tweeting about the incident shortly after 10am, with one saying
Google has added five Western Cape wineries to its popular Street View service in Google Maps and will begin collecting images in Botswana in the next few weeks, the Internet giant says in a new blog post. The five new wineries – Boekenhoutskloof, Groot Constantia, Hartenberg, Moresen
SA technology firm Jasco released its interim results for the six months to December 2011 on Monday, showing a structural shake-up, coupled with the acquisition of Spescom, are paying off for the company. Last year, the JSE-listed company restructured, consolidating its divisions under three broad areas
