The East African Submarine System (Eassy), a 1,4Tbit/s sub-sea cable along Africa’s east coast, is on track to go live…
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Cellular operators were set to receive a grilling in parliament this week. Politicians want mobile interconnection fees to come down. But it’s far from clear if the basic cost of calls will also fall. Can politicians avoid the temptation of interfering further?
Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda on Tuesday published a policy directive on mobile termination rates, the fees mobile operators charge one…
International telecommunications is an expensive business. Maintaining the networks of hundreds of thousands of kilometres of undersea fibre-optic cables that…
SA telecommunications network operators want to build a third international submarine cable landing station along the SA coastline to provide…
The Sat-3/Safe submarine telecommunications cable system that links SA with Portugal and Malaysia has been upgraded to between 340Gbit/s (SA…
When I was renting a piano for my daughter recently, I found an obvious spelling mistake in the lease agreement. This provided great amusement for the rental agent — he had been using the same contract for 20 years and I was the first person to point it out. Unfortunately for me, it was a bitter reminder about one of the key problems of documentation — nobody ever reads it
“This machine kills fascists,” read the words on a guitar that American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, used to carry. In…
Many innovation hubs have been proposed around the world, ostensibly modelling themselves on Silicon Valley. There have been successes, but…
Internet Solutions (IS) MD Angus MacRobert, pictured, has stepped down for “personal reasons”. He is replaced by Derek Wilcocks, a…