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Neotel parent, India’s Tata Communications, has a new CEO. The company has announced that Vinod Kumar will replace Srinath Narasimhan on 1 February.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has not received formal notification from Neotel that it plans to retrench workers, a union spokesman said on Friday. “As the situation stands, CWU has not yet formally received any

SA’s commercial broadcasters have welcomed communications minister Roy Padayachie’s announcement on Friday that SA will adopt the second generation of the European standard

No comment. That was the reaction from communications minister Roy Padayachie to news that Telkom acting CEO Jeffrey Hedberg would leave the telecommunications group at the end of March. Padayachie declined

SA will switch off analogue terrestrial broadcasts by December 2013, communications minister Roy Padayachie announced at a press conference on Friday morning

Neotel’s much-vaunted entry into the prepaid consumer market doesn’t appear to be paying dividends for the telecommunications company. More than three months after launching prepaid products, Neotel says

The news that promising local start-up FireID has retrenched all its staff and is facing closure has been met with despondency by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan, which says the Cape Town-based company had a winning

In the run up to its full-year results presentation next month, JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec says it has continued to improve its performance with economic conditions improving

FireID, a promising Cape Town-based start-up funded by billionaire Johann Rupert’s Reinet, is no more. The company retrenched its entire staff complement on Wednesday and will shut up shop

Microsoft’s proposed R472m black empowerment deal will finally come to fruition after months of delays and discussions with the department of trade & industry. Microsoft was supposed to announce the names of four