Communications minister Roy Padayachie will meet with the leaders of 30 of SA’s largest communications technology companies on Friday in an attempt to find ways government

In a surprise development, Dave Smith, the CEO of state-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco CEO has resigned. The resignation takes effect immediately

There is a sense of a “take no prisoners” attitude about Angela Gahagan when I meet her for this profile interview. The MTN Business managing executive is sitting, impeccably dressed, at the company’s boardroom table

MTN has signed a deal with the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) to manage the disposal of old cellular handsets and create development in the electronic waste (e-waste) industry in SA

The Europe India Gateway (EIG) undersea cable system is live and ready for commercial use. The cable will provide additional capacity to North Africa and provide an alternative route for telecommunications traffic for SA operators

China has a way of making Americans nervous. Whether it’s blowing up satellites, cuddling up to North Korea or being accused of fiddling its currency, the US just doesn’t trust its newest rival for global dominance. And this distrust

Emerging-markets cellphone group MTN wants to become a serious force to be reckoned with in the mobile content and application space, with plans to launch an app store

National treasury has allocated R2,2bn over five years for the department of home affairs’ “Who Am I Online?” project, which has been stalled by a legal dispute with Gijima, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said

National treasury has allocated a significant budget to the department of communications over the next three years to assist in the country’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television

Government is reintroducing a 7% ad valorem tax on imported computer monitors, scrapped in 2004, because many people, it says, are using them as television sets. TV sets and monitors