Former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle says he has not been asked to take up the position of director-general at the department of communications. Speculation has been mounting that Mokoetle is in line
Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) CEO Themba Dlamini will in early February reveal findings of a detailed investigation into radio frequency spectrum allegedly used by Screamer Telecoms, an Internet service provider
Last Thursday, 13 January, at 5pm a man was driving near the town of Phokeng, the capital of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, which lies near Rustenberg. He spotted a Telkom bakkie on the side of the road and a man in a Telkom uniform hacksawing
Episode 22 SA’s business technology podcast, TalkCentral, is ready to go, now with video. This week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones chat about the imminent launch of Red Bull Mobile
The department of communications and the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) are sitting on the digital equivalent of millions of hectares of fertile but fallow land in the form of several hundred megahertz
Telkom has secured a US$127m (R900m) loan from China with a term of up to seven years. It will use the money, at least in part, to fund its fledgling mobile business, 8ta. China Export and Credit Assurance
The news that Cell C is signing a deal with international energy-drinks company Red Bull to bring a second virtual mobile network operator (MVNO) to SA may have struck some as peculiar and too ambitious
On a rainy Monday evening Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle gathered at the Thunk! Perspective Lab to discuss Nokia Music, Telkom, Steve Jobs leaving
Red Bull’s plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in SA, piggybacking off Cell C’s network, could be the first of many such entrants, analysts say. Rumours are circulating that another
There was a lot of excitement in the technology press last week when it emerged that, after half a decade of debate and investigation, cabinet had finally chosen a standard for digital terrestrial television