JSE-listed IT multinational Datatec is keeping the corporate action simmering. Just a day after saying it would conclude a new empowerment deal at its local distribution business
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JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec has sold 26% of its SA distribution business, Westcon SA, to the Mineworkers Investment Company for R28m.
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
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