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”

Asher Bohbot, CEO of fast-growing JSE-listed IT group EOH, has downplayed the potential threat posed by telecommunications operators wanting to muscle into the business technology services market. As convergence

Cell C is ratcheting up its marketing war with rival Vodacom, launching a new advertising campaign targeting the latter’s rebranding to the red identity of its parent Vodafone. But Vodacom has already hit back, filing a complaint

Former Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig is giving serious thought to returning to the telecommunications industry when his restraints of trade with his former employer come to an end early next year

Perhaps it’s an indictment of the sad state of Hollywood action movies, but 58-year old Liam Neeson is one of the most credible action stars around at the moment. His latest film, Unknown, immediately brings to mind the 2008