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Cell C has been the biggest beneficiary of mobile number portability. Nearly a quarter of a million consumers have ported their numbers to Cell C’s network since number portability

Technology company Valor IT has been ordered by the north Gauteng high court to pay R1,8m and two year’s worth of interest at 15,5% to technology services business Blue Turtle Technologies

The Mail & Guardian’s website has been shut down temporarily after coming under a severe attack by hackers. “Because of the scale and severity of the assault we have decided to shut down the site while securing

Neotel has a new CEO. Sunil Joshi, head of enterprise solutions at Tata Communications, will take the reins at the telecommunications operator. Joshi will replace Pandey

Red Bull Mobile will not be a full-fledged mobile virtual network operator. Rather, Cell C will run the network on behalf of the Austrian energy-drinks company and own the subscribers

Vox Orion, Vox Telecom’s largest subsidiary, is making good progress in switching its customers onto its own telecommunications network as wholesale call termination rates begin

Former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle says he has not been asked to take up the position of director-general at the department of communications. Speculation has been mounting that Mokoetle is in line

Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) CEO Themba Dlamini will in early February reveal findings of a detailed investigation into radio frequency spectrum allegedly used by Screamer Telecoms, an Internet service provider

Telkom has secured a US$127m (R900m) loan from China with a term of up to seven years. It will use the money, at least in part, to fund its fledgling mobile business, 8ta. China Export and Credit Assurance

Telecommunications company MTN SA is building a new data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg, that can operate entirely independently of SA’s electricity grid. The site will be able to function indefinitely without