A lack of regulation in the mobile network market would likely harm consumers, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. Kate Hoffmeyer, for Cell C, argued that if MTN and Vodacom were granted interim relief through the court suspending Icasa’s 2014 regulations, this would result in the market being

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope would put South Africa and the continent on the map in a different way, science & technology minister Derek Hanekom said on Wednesday. “We are seeing a mega scientific project, the biggest international scientific project,” he said in Pretoria

The small black box at the heart of the move from analogue to digital is about South Africans’ freedom, which communications minister Yunus Carrim’s decision will either narrow or enlarge. This is unfortunate since technology and markets function

The May 2014 commercial launch of the .africa top-level domain is now a certainty after the final outstanding paperwork was signed at the 49th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (Icann) in Singapore this week, the ZA Central Registry

MTN and Vodacom should have disclosed their costs for calls to other networks, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. David Unterhalter SC, for communications regulator Icasa, argued that the companies would not reveal these costs to Icasa when

Investors have turned on Pinnacle Holdings, dumping the technology group’s shares for a second day in a row. In late morning trading on Wednesday, the company’s shares were off by more than 20%, extending a rout that began on Tuesday when the share

MasterCard’s annual Online Behaviour Study, presented by World Wide Worx, has revealed that the availability of secure payment facilities is most critical to South Africans when they shop online. The study revealed that 90% of respondents cite the availability

Africa’s challenge is to get itself into a proper state of readiness to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, science & technology minister Derek Hanekom told African heads of state on Wednesday in Pretoria. While the spotlight has been on South Africa and Australia sharing the giant telescope, which will comprise

Ministers of communications in the Southern Africa Development Community this week discussed a plan to introduce a “roam like a local” project for the region, allowing mobile users to roam across borders and pay lower rates. “The meeting

Investors in Pinnacle Holdings took a dim view of news on Tuesday that Takalani Tshivhase, who is an executive director at the JSE-listed technology company, had been arrested and charged for corruption after he allegedly tried to bribe a top police official