Open-access fibre telecommunications infrastructure provider DFA (Dark Fibre Africa) has acquired a “significant minority stake” in fibre-to-the-home specialist SA Digital Villages for an undisclosed sum. The transaction will see
The City of Cape Town is rolling out fibre broadband access to all buildings in the central business district as part of its investment into a municipal broadband network project. The city announced on Tuesday that it had connected an additional
Fibre broadband infrastructure provider Metrofibre Networx has reached an agreement with Link Africa that will see it replace all of the links for its core network with its own fibre over the next two years. Until now, the company has leased the fibre links for its core
Troubled technology group Altron has signed a binding agreement to dispose of its long-held subsidiary Aberdare Group for R1,2bn in cash. Altron subsidiary Powertech, which owns Aberdare, has entered into binding agreements to sell Hengtong Optic
Cape Town-based Wi-Fi start-up Asimmetric has raised a “seven-figure US dollar amount” in new funding from venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Founded by experts in the telecommunications industry, Asimmetric
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Last Friday, SpaceX achieved something incredible. It successfully landed one of its Falcon 9 rockets on a small barge bobbing in the ocean. This is after the rocket delivered a 1,5t supply payload for the International Space Station into orbit, and just nine minutes after it
There was fear and uncertainty among staff at Gupta-owned broadcaster ANN7 after they were told that they might not be getting their salaries. An employee at ANN7, who asked not named, said that staff were frightened and had been job hunting without any luck
I have submitted my fourth application under the Public Access to Information Act for clarity on the information and communications technology (ICT) pact signed last June with China. The latest follows the continued obfuscation
One in every thousand homes in the world is now listed on Airbnb. Founded in 2008 in San Francisco, the website brings hosts and accommodation seekers together with more than 2,2m listings in 34 000 cities and 191 countries around the