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Telecommunications group Altech has acquired 5Gbit/s of capacity in the Seacom undersea cable system to provide bandwidth to the markets…
The department of communications is considering a cooling off period for councillors of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa)…
SA’s telecommunications industry is in such a poor state precisely because of secret deals done in smoke-filled rooms. So it’s…
The parliamentary portfolio committee on communications is expected to issue a statement late on Tuesday in which it will call…
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has come under fire in parliament for the time it has taken it…
The State Information Technology Agency (Sita) has referred three high-profile cases of alleged corruption to the Special Commercial Crimes Unit…
AltX-listed Huge Group has hit back at recent claims that a dramatic reduction in mobile interconnection fees will destroy the…
Pixar can do no wrong in the eyes of most critics and the animation studio’s latest effort, Up, is no…
I know that this article is going shock you, but not in the way you expect, so buckle up. I have oversimplified the piece, but its essence is as true as you could wish for. The other day, I found a Telkom — in those days Posts & Telecommunications — internal “newspaper” called Postel, dated December 1982. The front page article — coincidentally written by myself at the time — described a 40% cut in international data communication tariffs based on X.75 packet-switching. Before the 40% cut, it cost, in today’s money, more than R10 000 to send 1MB of data. After the 40% cut, it cost only R6 000/MB — a bargain, with demand exceeding supply