The 64th and final foundation for the MeerKAT telescope antenna has been laid at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) site outside Carnarvon in the Karoo, the SKA Organisation has announced. Almost to 5 000 cubic metres of concrete and more than 570 tons of steel were used to construct the foundations, a project
Dimension Data division Internet Solutions has bought 12-year-old online media streaming service Antfarm for an undisclosed sum. Launched in 2002, Antfarm provides streaming services live or on demand to the public and to corporate and government customers. Internet Solutions connectivity and
After a brief hiatus, the ZA Tech Show returns with Brett Haggard, Adam Oxford and Steven Ambrose in the studio. Amongst other things, they discuss the day the Internet fought back, Lenovo’s purchase of Motorola from Google, Sony’s plans to sell its Vaio business and Microsoft’s new CEO
As parliament this week shines a spotlight on the cost of communications in South Africa, it has emerged that Vodacom’s high-end, all-in-one contract packages are significantly more expensive than similar products at other Vodafone-owned operations around the world. An investigation by
Communications regulator Icasa expects Vodacom to join MTN in demanding it does away with new wholesale inter-network pricing regulations, MPs heard on Tuesday. Vodacom last week indicated it would institute a legal challenge, but has not yet served any papers on
Mobile operator MTN has demanded that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) do away with reduced call termination rates, parliament’s communications portfolio committee heard on Tuesday. “We received a letter from one of the big operators, a legal letter, to
A unit of media giant Naspers has launched an extraordinary and blistering attack on Google, accusing the US Internet giant of not paying its fair share of taxes in South Africa. It says Google is making it hard for local digital publishers to compete because it transacts through an offshore entity
The move by national treasury and the South African Revenue Service to force foreign suppliers of downloadable digital goods and services to register to pay value-added tax in South Africa makes complete sense, but some administrative issues must still
StarSat, the pay-television platform previously known as TopTV, will emerge as a “serious competitor” to MultiChoice, the Naspers subsidiary that owns the dominant DStv service. That’s the word from Peter van den Steen, who is overseeing the business rescue of StarSat parent On
Altech Alcom Matomo has won a tender worth R1,2bn from the Gauteng provincial government to build a province-wide fibre-optic broadband network over the next five years. Alcom Matomo, a subsidiary of technology and telecommunications group Altech, will be responsible for
