Details are emerging of plans for the construction of yet another high-capacity submarine telecommunications cable to serve the African continent. The Wasace cable, which will connect Africa, including SA, with South America, North America and Europe, and which will cost
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Naspers-owned Internet service provider MWeb has launched a social media campaign in an attempt to pressure Telkom to stop forcing its broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) customers to pay for telephone line rental if they don’t have a fixed-line
Before the decade is out, newspapers and magazines will have had to have moved to some sort of digital platform. They have less than 10 years left to try and make as much money out of paper as possible before print becomes unsustainable. These are the views of Alistair Fairweather
The department of communications has withdrawn the controversial Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, just weeks after critics warned it undermined the independent broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and could face
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will next Wednesday publish the framework in terms of which local-loop unbundling will take place. It will be published in the Government Gazette on 30 November. Publication of the document will precede
Absa Bank has reached an agreement with the department of home affairs that allows the bank to access the Home Affairs National Identification System (Hanis) in an effort to reduce identity fraud. It has also overhauled its sign-up process, making it paperless, and
Telkom released another set of shocking financial results this week, prompting some commentators to wonder if the company is sliding into irrelevance. But behind the dismal numbers is a more positive story. It’s one of a management team, under CEO Nombulelo Moholi
The share price of JSE-listed IT group Business Connexion (BCX) fell sharply on Wednesday morning after it withdrew a cautionary announcement that it was in talks that could affect its share price. The talks were strongly rumoured to be related to a potential
African Prepaid Services Nigeria (APSN), a now-mostly-dormant company in which JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has an effective 37% stake, is claiming US$481m, or about R4bn at the prevailing exchange rate, in damages from Multi-Links, Telkom’s former Nigerian
Blue Label Telecoms shareholders on Tuesday approved a plan by the JSE-listed company to buy the 12% of the company’s shares held by US software maker Microsoft in a deal worth R390m. Microsoft is selling the shares at a loss. It bought 91,9m shares in 2007 for R6,75/share and is selling