Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn wants cabinet to “review and reverse” the broadcasting digital migration policy it adopted in March to “break the legal logjam that is crippling South Africa’s migration to digital broadcasting”. Her remarks
Residents of the prominent Johannesburg suburb of Blairgowrie have voted overwhelmingly in favour of telecommunications start-up Vumatel rolling out fibre-to-the-home broadband in
Telkom and Cell C offer the best-value contract packages for consumers, Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker shows. The company’s second “Perfect Package Tracker” of 2015 measures the real effects of price and package changes in South Africa’s post-paid
The risk of a total power blackout in South Africa at any point in future is “out of the question”, acting Eskom CEO Brian Molefe said on Wednesday. “The prospect of a blackout is virtually non-existent,” he told reporters in Johannesburg during a briefing on
Smile Communications has outsourced management of its 4G/LTE networks in all its operations in Africa to Ericsson in a five-year agreement that covers Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The value of the deal has
South Africa is part of a small list of countries that have failed to even get out of the starting blocks regarding digital migration, according to an international body. In 2006, South Africa and other countries in Europe, the Middle East and
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Vodacom has expressed cautious welcome over one regulator’s approval of its planned bid to buy Neotel. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa earlier this week
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