In 2008, the national treasury allocated an amount of R2,4bn for the purchase of set-top boxes for 5m indigent households as part of the digital migration project. This funding has, however, been rolled over each year because of the delay in rolling out the project. We have since learnt
It’s fair to say that MTN’s purchase of Internet service provider Afrihost in late 2014 caught most of the industry by surprise. Not because MTN paid more than R400m for half of the business (which no one knew at the time), but because this meant MTN suddenly owned a consumer ISP
Walking through Google’s new offices in Bryanston in Johannesburg last week, I couldn’t help but get caught up in the excitement. Sure, there were bright colours and the contemporary office designs that Google is known for, meant to inspire the engineers hard at work day and night
There are few things which upset me more than the state of the South African education system. It is a system which consigns millions of people to mass incarceration every year and, much like
The fallout of the Ashley Madison breach continues. Extortion, even suicides, are being linked to the data dump, which revealed a lot of personal information about the site’s users. It’s an interesting case
Anyone who flies into Johannesburg in the early mornings during winter will be familiar with the atmospheric inversion layer, where air near the ground is cooled by the unheated swimming pools of the struggling middle classes. The cool air traps pollutants beneath warmer layers
Ten billion rand. That’s MTN South Africa’s capital expenditure this year. It’s a massive number. For the first year in memory (possibly ever), MTN will outspend Vodacom on capex. In the 2015 financial year, Vodacom spent R8,6bn. Now, Vodacom’s
Did the Competition Commission do the right thing in seeking to block – in the process scuppering – the network sharing deal between Telkom and MTN? On the surface, it appears it was the right move for consumers, but dig a little deeper and one has to question whether the
In April, Trend Micro released a research paper about sextortion, the means through which cybercriminals obtain compromising personal images or videos of Internet users, which they then hold hostage until their
Revenue forecasts for communication service providers in the African and Middle East (AME) growth markets remain bleak, with projections of continued stagnation for a minimum of three years. According to Ovum, the AME mobile
