Internet service provider MWeb is working with broadcaster MultiChoice on the option of launching a bundle of uncapped broadband, pay TV, and possibly even voice telephony to SA consumers
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MultiChoice added more than 360 000 new subscribers in SA in the six months to 30 September, handily beating its new rival On Digital Media, which launched TopTV in May
Cell C is “going for Telkom’s jugular with its new rates” and is no longer playing in the same field as SA’s other mobile operators, says an analyst. Less than a month ago it
Blue Label Telecoms will take legal action to recover an unspecified amount of damages it says it has suffered after losing an exclusive contract with Telkom’s failed Nigerian operation, Multi-Links.
Shanduka Group, controlled by leading black businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, has acquired a vast economic interest in the telecommunications group.
Vox Telecom will offer low-cost satellite broadband nationwide from late next year, in the process taking on the country’s established telecommunications operators more directly than it has in the past
Sacked communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda has a new job. President Jacob Zuma has asked the speaker of the national assembly, Max Sisulu, to appoint Nyanda as the “president’s parliamentary counsellor” with immediate effect.
It’s official. Southern Africa will adopt the European standard for digital terrestrial broadcasting. In addition, the region has adopted the latest version of the standard, known as digital video broadcasting terrestrial
JSE-listed technology group Altech has lost two of its most senior executives. James Rutherfoord, Altech’s group executive for telecommunications, has left to head up Nokia in West Africa. And chief technology officer
Security specialist Kaspersky Lab says the law that requires South Africans to hand over personal details to telecommunications operators could compromise their security.