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The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has no right under the country’s constitution to block pay-TV operator TopTV from launching adult channels and the fact that it has done so is setting a “terrible precedent” that will erode the freedoms that South Africans fought for under
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has raised the idea of creating R700m national venture capital fund, funded by the state, to provide investment capital to help early-stage businesses. The proposal is contained in the opposition political party’s “alternative budget”, published on Tuesday and available here
BT Group (formerly British Telecom) is expanding its presence in sub-Saharan Africa, including in SA, doubling the number of people it employs across the Middle East and Africa and investing in fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure, the company said on Tuesday
Technology group Gijima has shown a strong turnaround in its performance in the six months to December 2011. It’s profit line is back in the black after it was forced to write-off a significant sum in the prior period to a dispute with the department of home affairs
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants to license new pay-TV operators to compete with incumbent MultiChoice, which owns DStv, and recent entrant On Digital Media, with TopTV, despite little interest in launching commercial services
Weeks after independent fibre operator Metrofibre Networx completed the roll-out of high-speed fibre-optic access infrastructure to Rivonia in Johannesburg, the company has announced it has extended the network to Linbro Business Park, a giant office park complex east of Sandton. Metrofibre Networx
Johannesburg-based radio station Kaya FM has overhauled its outside broadcasting facilities and moved from physical mixing desks and other large and cumbersome interfaces to virtual ones that run on tablet computers. Its new system runs on Mecer Xpress Windows-based slates from Mustek
Western Cape premier Helen Zille wants every citizen in the Cape Town metropolitan area to have access to 100Mbit/s broadband by 2020. In addition, she wants government buildings and schools to enjoying that sort of connectivity by 2014. Zille made the
The Western Cape will see a “game-changing” infrastructure plan this year, premier Helen Zille said on Friday. This will include delivering broadband to every school in the province by 2014. “The most powerful economic lever in the hands of a provincial government
The sharp decline in Tekom’s share price in recent months could pose a challenge for it in its talks with KT Corp to sell 20% of its equity to the Korean telecommunications firm. Telkom share price has fallen significantly in recent months because of disappointing financial results and, more recently
