Ericsson to manage Smile network

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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

SA not alone in missing digital TV deadline

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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

SA-designed prosthetic hand 3D printed

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A low-cost prosthetic hand, designed in Cape Town and 3D printed in Bloemfontein, is pointing the way to a brighter future for amputees. Award-winning academic and mechanical

ITU deadline missed, but don’t worry: gov’t

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Despite South Africa’s missing the deadline to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting by Wednesday, 17 June, South Africans would still be able to watch free-to-air television, the communications ministry said. “Minister of communications

Electricity tariff hike will ‘cripple SA’

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Eskom’s proposed 25% electricity price hike, if approved, will further cripple the already bleeding South African economy, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) said on Tuesday. “The metals and engineering

Teen girls to create Africa’s first private satellite

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Africa’s first private satellite will be launched in 2016. But scientists and engineers will not be behind this bold move. Instead, it is being powered by a group of South African high school girls. Pupils from across Cape Town on Youth Day attended the launch of the ambitious

SA misses more than digital TV deadline

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More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that