The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala not to resign and rather face a parliamentary inquiry into whether she lied about her qualification. Reacting to media reports that Tshabalala would be asked

Vodacom showed off download speeds on its 4G/LTE network of 270Mbit/s on Tuesday, but consumers shouldn’t expect to get those speeds any time soon due to delays by government in formulating a policy on licensing new radio frequency

A decision by MultiChoice no longer to allow DStv customers to suspend their DStv packages any time during the month is generating unhappiness among some of its clients. TechCentral has received a number of complaints from unhappy customers, who say the

While legal sales of recorded music continue to suffer from widespread music piracy, the popularity of live music appears to be enjoying an unprecedented boom. In his recent book The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud, Patrik Wikström explains that licensing and live music are now

MTN is not prepared to spend billions of dollars building advanced telecommunications networks just so that “over the top” (OTT) providers can get a “free ride” by competing with the company using that same costly infrastructure. There

Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Virgin Mobile South Africa has set its sights on a million subscribers over the next three years and hopes a new product proposition it will launch before the end of the year will be the platform that allows it to achieve this. The company has downplayed suggestions

In a few short years, voice telephony will effectively be free of charge for both contract and prepaid users. That’s the view of MTN South Africa’s newly appointed CEO, Ahmad Farroukh, who says the industry will in future need

Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has announced it is acquiring MWeb Business as well as the core network assets of the MWeb Internet service provider business and Optinet. The businesses are owned

Russia’s atomic energy agency said on Monday that it will provide up to eight nuclear reactors to South Africa by 2023 in a US$50m strategic partnership between the two countries. The delivery of the reactors will enable the foundation of the first

The latest version of First National Bank’s transactional banking app for smartphones now offers customers the ability to send money across the border to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. FNB’s Zimbabwe money transfer service was first launched on