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Vodacom Group has named a BP executive as its new MD to replace Shameel Joosub, who is now the CEO of Vodafone in Spain. The company has been without an MD of its most important operating subsidiary since the beginning of April

SA’s information and communication technologies (ICT) market grew to R179bn last year, communications minister Roy Padayachie said on Tuesday. Speaking during debate on his department’s budget in the national assembly, he told MPs it was

O3b Networks, which plans to launch a constellation of medium-earth orbit satellites by 2013, has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with SA’s Mavoni Technologies to bring broadband to rural areas. O3b wants

Communications minister Roy Padayachie will issue a policy directive to telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to conduct a review of the so-called “digital dividend” spectrum

Communications minister Roy Padayachie says the country is on track to switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by December 2013, paving the way for spectrum that will be freed up through the migration

“Job security”, with conditions including a facility for voluntary severance and early retirement packages, is included in Telkom’s offer to its employees, the company said on Monday. “Parties were informed that the offer on job security

Luke Taylor, a grade 9 pupil at the German International School in Cape Town, has been named as one of 15 finalists in Google’s Science Fair. Taylor was a semi-finalist among 60 others named by Google last month. He faced competition

For the past seven years, Latin America has enjoyed a boom in demand for satellite connectivity. Now SES, the world’s second largest satellite operator, predicts a similar explosion in demand will happen in Africa in the next few years. Scott Sprague

Software and IT services company UCS is considering delisting from the JSE just weeks after finalising a deal to sell a large chunk of its operations to Business Connexion (BCX). UCS joins companies such as Mustek and TeleMasters

Telecommunications industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will publish a discussion document this week in the Government Gazette outlining its thoughts on unbundling Telkom’s local loop, the copper lines