Joel and Ethan Coen make films that should be too odd and oblique for the mainstream, reaping piles of awards, rave reviews and a measure of commercial success in return. The brothers’ latest film – the circuitous, downbeat Inside Llewyn Davis – spares a
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, facing a legal challenge brought on an urgent basis at the high court by MTN, has decided to delay implementation of new wholesale call termination regulations to 1 May 2014. The regulations, which govern the fees operators can charge
The decision by mobile operator MTN South Africa to take communications regulator Icasa to court over looming cuts to wholesale call rates “should not in any way be construed as an attempt to keep the cost of telecommunications high as has been inferred in certain quarters”. TechCentral revealed on
You may have seen a resurgence of news about net neutrality in the last few weeks. This is because a US court recently ruled that the communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission, doesn’t have the power to insist that Internet service providers operate according
The Communication Workers Union’s dispute with the South African Post Office is not over, the union said on Friday. “We would like to put on record that our dispute with the Post Office over several issues, key to them being salary increments, remains in force,” general secretary Thabo Mogalane
The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which manages the .co.za. Internet domain space, has a new CEO. Lucky Masilela is taking the reins from Neil Dundas, who becomes the organisation’s chief operating officer. Masilela will work closely with Dundas. Under Dundas, the ZACR has
It’s official. MTN has fired the first shot in what looks set to be one of the biggest ever legal battles in South Africa’s telecommunications industry. The mobile operator has lodged an application at the high court in Johannesburg to have telecoms
Despite a number of retail price skirmishes in South Africa’s mobile telecommunications industry in 2013, the prepaid tariffs levied by South Africa’s two incumbent mobile operators, Vodacom and MTN, remain “expensive” relative to the rest of the
Telkom has appointed Alphonzo Samuels as its new chief technology officer. The CTO role is a newly created position in the top management layer at the fixed-line operator. Samuels joined the company in January 1984. During his 30-year
Standard Bank has no plans to launch a Bitcoin trading portal after all. Bank spokesman Ross Linstrom has poured cold water on speculation that it is gearing up to launch the platform, saying it was part of a pilot project that was shelved
