Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications will probe telecommunications costs in South Africa, starting at a two-day public hearing at the end of this month. The two-day session, which will take place on 29 and 30 November, will form the initial phase of
Nokia on Friday launched its highly anticipated new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920, in South Africa. The phone, seen by analysts as the Finnish firm’s best chance to date of reversing its punishing loss in smartphone market share, is the first from Nokia running Windows
Telkom is moving quickly to reconstitute its board of directors following government’s move at the company’s recent annual general meeting to block the election or reelection of four of its nonexecutive directors. On Friday, it announced it had appointed Leslie Maasdorp
It will cost R28bn to take high-speed fibre-optic broadband infrastructure into 1,5m South African homes. That’s the estimate by Dark Fibre Africa CEO Gustav Smit, who says there is no proper business case for fibre to the home on a mass scale yet, only
Smile Telecommunications, the telecommunications operator started five years ago by former MTN executive Irene Charnley, has signed a deal that will see it investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build fourth-generation (4G) broadband networks in Uganda, Tanzania
Independent telecommunications tower operator, Nigerian-founded IHS Group, believes that half of the 170 000 base stations built by mobile operators in Africa will be considered for outsourcing within the next three to five years as pressure
SouthTel Group’s planned video-on-demand service, called VOD:TV, which was first slated for launch in September 2011, will now only go live next year, a company spokesman says. VOD:TV, when it is launched, will offer consumers a range of on-demand content
Telkom has appointed Attila Vitai as MD of its mobile division, which includes Telkom Business Mobile and 8ta. The appointment is effective immediately. According to Telkom, Vitai “brings a wealth of experience with a successful 20-year track record of senior
With its tapered sides, polycarbonate-clad unibody design and 4,3-inch, 1 280×720-pixel display, the HTC 8X certainly looks the part. As HTC’s new flagship Windows Phone device and one of the first handsets powered by Windows Phone 8
E.tv says it is dismayed by comments made by Roy Kruger, communications minister Dina Pule’s technical advisor, about the broadcaster’s commitment to digital terrestrial television. Pule herself was quick to distance herself from the remarks
