Energy-drinks company Red Bull and mobile operator Cell C have taken the wraps off their telecommunications joint venture, unveiling aggressive tariff plans that should get consumers
Month: February 2011
An undersea fibre-optic cable laid along the West African coast came ashore in Namibia on Tuesday, allowing high bandwidth connectivity for the country and its neighbours
Could Zimbabwe be the next big investment opportunity for emerging markets-focused telecommunications operators? A new report from Renaissance Capital suggests it might be
Although there is still some time to go before SA runs out of Internet addresses based on the outgoing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), not enough Internet service providers are taking the move to the new Internet Protocol
Telkom’s attempt to have one of two potentially damaging competition cases against it quashed has been dashed by the Competition Tribunal. The case relates to allegations of abuse of dominance referred to
JSE-listed Reunert, which owns Nashua Mobile and other technology companies, has bought back another 3% of its ordinary share capital for R392,8m. The purchase brings to
The emerging world of IT is one in which data is king, social platforms evolve as a new source of business intelligence, and cloud computing finally delivers on IT’s role as a driver
Telkom has lost its bid to charge other mobile operators a higher interconnection rate than it would have paid them, dealing a blow to its new mobile subsidiary, 8ta
Expect 2011 to be an exciting year for the telecommunications industry as a host of new products from the world’s handset and computer manufacturers hit the SA market and as
The seeds of the crisis in Johannesburg’s chaotic billing system were sown five years ago when a R208m tender to upgrade the system was awarded to an inexperienced company whose directors have a record