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David Redshaw, the IT industry stalwart and long-time friend and confidante of Altron founder Bill Venter and his family, has passed away, aged 69. Redshaw, who worked for Altron companies in senior executive roles for 22 years, including as founding
SA’s four cellular network operators and two fixed-line providers will have new customer contracts that are compliant with the Consumer Protection Act in place within the next three months, according to Business Report on Monday. This
Chicken restaurant chain Nando’s has bid farewell to outgoing Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt in a cheeky advertising campaign in which it declares: “We’ll be watching you, Lars. Like a chicken.” Nando’s, which is known for its irreverent and humourous
As competition in the broadband market intensifies, Telkom on Friday said it would offer home and small business customers the opportunity to test its digital subscriber lines by means of a free three-month trial. Customers taking up
After 10 months of speculation, Vox Telecom has finally confirmed that it’s going private. Assuming it gets the necessary approvals, the company will delist from the JSE after receiving a R500m acquisition offer from a consortium comprising Lereko
SA youth radio station YFM has launched YTV, a service that streams live video content of its studio. What sets the service apart is that the video feed is able to scale itself dynamically depending on the viewer’s bandwidth so there is no need for the visual
Internet users provided a list of service stations in SA that had fuel supply on Thursday. The page called #gotpetrol was started on popular social networking site Twitter by Andy Parks. The names of services stations with fuel, the street name
Neotel believes there is “plenty of knowledge” about local-loop unbundling available and SA ought to learn from it and adapt it to the country’s context. The company’s chief technology officer, Angus Hay, was speaking on Thursday
Industry body, the SA Communications Forum (SACF), believes unbundling Telkom’s local loop of copper-cable infrastructure is essential if SA is to improve education, health and the economy. But it’s only one of the steps necessary to
MTN SA has launched a trial of a next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network, offering download speeds of up to 70Mbit/s in Gauteng. The LTE network, which has been deployed at about
