Communications regulator Icasa has announced that it intends launching a probe into South Africa’s pay-television market after various attempts in recent years to introduce competition to dominant operator
Vodacom has dished out R18m worth of shares to its CEO as part of its forfeitable share plan. In a notice to shareholders on Thursday, the company announced that it had awarded 108 099 Vodacom shares, at a price each
An analysis by BrandsEye, a South African online reputation specialist that monitors conversations on social media to distil trends, has suggested the “Leave” campaign in Thursday’s British referendum could do better than
Cape Town’s CCTV cameras are stopping smash and grabbers in their tracks, and more are on the way, the city has said. The city’s mayoral committee member for safety and security, JP Smith, said Cape Town’s strategic
While both the City of Cape Town and City of Tshwane have specific plans to roll out Wi-Fi Internet access, the metros have taken divergent views on how to implement their vision. “The total spending on Cape Town’s public Wi-Fi
The private sector is actually the culprit who is to blame for South Africa’s current economic problems, Mzwanele (Jimmy) Manyi, president of the Progressive Professionals Forum, claimed on Wednesday
MultiChoice and the department of communications have launched appeals against the supreme court of appeals ruling on encryption for set-top boxes. Both the pay-TV provider and the department disagree with the appeal court’s
Subsea telecommunications cable operator Seacom has added more peering points in Europe and Africa. The company has added the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) in Marseille and France Internet Exchange (FranceIX) in Paris to the list of European
Telkom has walked away from talks to buy state-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco, TechCentral has learnt. According to a…
The amount of electricity generated using solar panels stands to expand as much as sixfold by 2030 as the cost of production falls below competing natural gas and coal-fired plants, according to the International Renewable