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SA youth radio station YFM has launched YTV, a service that streams live video content of its studio. What sets the service apart is that the video feed is able to scale itself dynamically depending on the viewer’s bandwidth so there is no need for the visual
Internet users provided a list of service stations in SA that had fuel supply on Thursday. The page called #gotpetrol was started on popular social networking site Twitter by Andy Parks. The names of services stations with fuel, the street name
Neotel believes there is “plenty of knowledge” about local-loop unbundling available and SA ought to learn from it and adapt it to the country’s context. The company’s chief technology officer, Angus Hay, was speaking on Thursday
Industry body, the SA Communications Forum (SACF), believes unbundling Telkom’s local loop of copper-cable infrastructure is essential if SA is to improve education, health and the economy. But it’s only one of the steps necessary to
MTN SA has launched a trial of a next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband network, offering download speeds of up to 70Mbit/s in Gauteng. The LTE network, which has been deployed at about
Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt is stepping down with immediate effect. The company’s board announced on Wednesday that Reichelt will be leaving the company. “Lars has indicated his wish to resign for personal reasons and, after
The Hawks and home affairs immigration inspectorate arrested 18 Chinese nationals for suspected illegal immigration on Wednesday. They conducted a series of simultaneous, nationwide raids on the operations of ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications
With television shifting to the Internet and traditional broadcasting models under threat, broadcasters need to embrace new technologies and collaborate better with partners or risk losing out.
That’s a key finding in a recent report by Accenture
Virgin Mobile has launched a mobile broadband product, offering consumers a 3G data modem for R50/month over a 24-month contract term. However, unlike competing offerings in the market, the product does not include bundled data
Imagine phoning a call centre and having your call raised to a supervisor simply because you raise your voice or use keywords such as “unacceptable” or “complain”. A US software company, Interactive Intelligence, which recently
