India’s Tata Communications has rubbished talk that it plans to sell its South African subsidiary, telecommunications operator Neotel. Company spokesman Rozzyn Boy on Friday said Tata had no intention of selling the company. “We don’t have any plans to sell Neotel, no

Telkom looks set to shut down its telex network because of lack of use and ever-shrinking revenues from the ageing service. The move is expected to affect as many as 26 employees. The move comes as a long-running legal battle finally heads to the high court in Pretoria next week. Telkom is facing a

Orange Business Services, the IT services arm of giant French telecommunications operator Orange, is gearing up to help South African multinationals wanting to expand on the continent to do so. Jean-Luc Lasnier, GM for Orange Business Services in the

Among the plethora of announcements at Google’s annual I/O developer event was one that should have music fans excited. The company is launching Google Play Music All Access, a streaming music service, beating rival Apple, which is said to be planning a similar product, to market. However, the

As their markets become saturated and as lower-margin data overtakes voice as the primary traffic on their networks, mobile operators are going to have to change dramatically, altering their operating models, cutting costs and completely reshaping their cultures, if they’re to continue to survive, let

The Dryver mobile application is Tops at Spar’s initiative to reduce drunk driving by allowing people to create a network of friends using the contact on their phones that can then be used to arrange a lift home when they’ve had too much to drink. Users can set their status to

Kagiso Media, which has previously expressed interest in launching both free-to-air and pay-television services, says digital terrestrial broadcasting may be on the “brink of irrelevance” and the longer the process is delayed, the less likely new players are to be successful. CEO Omar Essack made the comments

“It’s all about the ecosystem.” That’s a catchphrase much bandied about these days. For mobile device manufacturers, having a range of quality software is as important as the hardware. Perhaps even more important. Two companies, Finland’s Nokia and Canada’s

Media and technology group Naspers’s share price touched fresh record highs on Wednesday after China’s largest Internet company, Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, beat analysts’ expectations in the first quarter. According to Bloomberg, net income of just over 4 billion

The application for the .durban domain has passed the initial evaluation phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), meaning it’s likely websites with .durban appended to their addresses will make an appearance this year. That’s according to the .ZA Domain