Sentech says its national broadband network will cost between R1,1bn and R1,2bn over the next three years, leaving the company short of R250m in financing to build the infrastructure. The state-owned company has set aside
Google is not used to being last in line. For over a decade it has been the darling of both the tech world and the stock markets, raking in both users and profits in record quantities. But in the last five years the gravity of the online market
The playground battle between Vodacom and Cell C over the latter’s new advertising campaign is a signal of something altogether more interesting than them throwing marketing dirt at each other: competition in
JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Altech has warned its profits in its financial year to 28 February 2011 will take a hit, in part as a result of poor economic conditions and a write-down in goodwill
The digital dividend is set to disrupt global competitive practices in the telecommunications sector, and Europe may be the litmus test of how the rest of the world should consider the valuable spectrum assignments. But dangers are lurking
Sentech should concentrate on building SA’s digital terrestrial television broadcasting network and forget about trying to involve itself, again, in building a national broadband telecommunications network
The launch of the SA-backed US$250m New Dawn satellite has been rescheduled after an aborted first attempt at the end of March. The satellite, which will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket, will take off from a spaceport
Vodacom’s advertising agency, Draftfcb, has accused its former executive creative director, Grant Jacobsen, of unethical behaviour over Cell C’s new advertising campaign and has warned it may sue him for damages
Readers who have signed up for TechCentral’s first technology pub quiz on Tuesday night are in for a treat. Our grand prize is a brand new Apple iPad 2, sponsored by Vodacom. Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou is the quizmaster
Last week, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) held a workshop to hear the opinions of broadcasters and telecommunications providers on the fate of a chunk of spectrum known as the “digital dividend”