Troubled technology and industrial group Altron said on Monday that it expects to return to profitability for the six months ended 31 August 2016 as a restructuring starts to bear early fruit. It said in a trading statement that it expects to report
Vodacom doesn’t have the spectrum it needs to launch next-generation 4G+ broadband services nationwide, but the unique nature of the Gautrain tunnel system has allowed it to launch the technology on a limited scale in Gauteng. As a result of the deployment, Vodacom
JSE-listed telecommunications company Huge Group has reached an agreement to acquire ConnectNet Broadband Wireless and its wholly owned subsidiary, tier-one Internet service provider Sainet, for at least R275m, pending
Quantum mechanics, Carl Sagan once observed, is so strange that “common sense is almost useless in approaching it”. Scientists still don’t understand exactly why matter behaves as it does at the quantum level. Yet they’re getting better at exploiting its peculiar dynamics
The department of telecommunications & postal services has established a “war room” to fast-track the roll-out of broadband in the country. “Government has identified information and communications technology and broadband
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has come to the defence of government’s upcoming policy on allocating so-called “high-demand spectrum” for 4G/LTE wireless
Tencent Holdings, in which South Africa’s Naspers has a 34% equity stake, has surpassed China Mobile to become the country’s most valuable corporation, underscoring the growing importance of a vibrant private economy
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele is confident that his office can win a lawsuit to stop a high-speed broadband auction from going ahead. Cwele’s office recently asked
Pan-African telecommunications operator, Seacom, which is best known for building an undersea fibre cable along Africa’s east coast seven years ago, has gone live with a point of presence in Slough, about 30km west
A simple tag pioneered in South Africa could soon be used to curb the spread of tuberculosis in Africa. In efforts to better understand how the disease is spread, IBM engineer Toby Kurien and research