Eskom will implement stage two rolling blackouts on Thursday, the power utility said. “This is due to a shortage of generation capacity as several units are currently out of service due to planned and
The supreme court of appeal yesterday dismissed StarSat’s leave to appeal a high court judgment that communications regulator Icasa had erred in granting it a licence to broadcast pornography. The news
The Payments Association of South Africa (Pasa) is moving ahead with plans to fine merchants that have failed to comply with 3-D Secure, a new layer of verification for online payments. And it’s got some online retailers hot under the collar. While not everyone’s happy
Telkom has once again renewed its cautionary notice to shareholders, informing them that it remains locked in negotiations with rival MTN about a deal. “Shareholders are advised that Telkom and MTN South Africa remain in discussions regarding the
A conference on small and medium enterprises hosted by the department of telecommunications & postal services was thrown into disarray on Tuesday after police were called in to remove the president of one of the factions of a warring grouping of black industrialists
Far from having any plans to change Vodacom’s name to match parent Vodafone, Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao revealed in Johannesburg on Wednesday that the global telecommunications group could
A fire broke out at Mxit’s offices in Stellenbosch early this morning. The fire started at 2am on Wednesday. Mxit chief financial officer Richard Newton said the fire was the result of an electrical fault. “There was a fair amount of smoke damage that
The Black IT Forum, which represents thousands of small and medium enterprises, black professionals and students, has said it will put forward a “forceful view” on Vodacom’s proposed
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Those were the alleged words of John Wanamaker, a US merchant and notable type that lived at the turn of the 20th century. I say “allegedly” because if the Internet has
There have frequently been calls for BT, the former telecoms monopoly, to be broken up. Now, with the company having emerged as the buyer of mobile phone network EE, complaints about BT’s power – which have never gone away – have grown louder. But other than