The SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) has introduced a “copper theft barometer” to try reduce the R5bn this crime costs the economy each year, a spokeswoman said on Thursday

Telecommunications operators say the Universal Service Fund should be used exclusively for telecommunications services in underserviced areas and should not be tapped by broadcasters for digital set-top box

Cabinet on Wednesday discussed the issue of which standard SA will adopt for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. Curiously, however, no reference was made to the issue in Thursday’s cabinet statement

Unbundling the local loop, the “last mile” of copper cables that connect consumers to Telkom’s telephone exchanges, will not promote increased access to fixed-line broadband services

Neotel and Vodacom have called on their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to scrap the universal service obligations they agreed to when they were licensed. Instead, they want

A new start-up is hoping to change the way South Africans buy wine, benefiting both consumers and farmers in the process. The site, SaleWine.co.za, founded by local wine expert AJ Ray, is modelled

Several senior staff have resigned from Nashua Mobile following the recent exit of MD Chris Scoble and a retrenchment programme at the independent cellular service provider. Nashua Mobile, which is

Worldwide sales of network-connected e-readers are forecast to reach 6,6m units in 2010, up 79,8% from 2009 sales of 3,6m units, says research firm Gartner. That growth will continue into next

Last week’s WikiLeaks disclosure of US diplomatic cables is arguably the biggest international news story of 2010. But it could end up being a defining theme of 21st-century politics: the communications

A short distance off the highway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, not far from the Samrand offramp north of Midrand, is a large but otherwise nondescript building. To the casual observer