Themba Dlamini, deputy director-general of the department of science & technology, has been appointed as the new CEO of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube made the announcement on Friday morning at the authority’s press conference on call termination rates.

Questions have been raised about the SA telecommunications and IT regulator’s complicity in allowing Global Web Intact (GWI) and Screamer to lease spectrum, apparently illegally, from Sentech. This follows the leaking of internal Sentech

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has introduced an asymmetric wholesale call termination regime that benefits smaller market players, including Cell C, Neotel and Telkom’s 8ta.

Faulty neon lighting on the Telkom Tower in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, is believed to be the cause of a fire that damaged to the structure’s giant soccer ball on Friday morning. The telecommunications company erected the ball earlier this year to mark the 2010 World Cup.

With thousands of users from around the world and around 70PB (that’s petabytes) of data handled on a daily basis, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has a surprisingly simple technology requirement.

Government will use the development of communications infrastructure to boost employment in the country. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivered the country’s medium-term budget on Wednesday, reining in public spending and promising that infrastructure development would be used to meet government’s employment targets.

Cell C has made a pit stop in Polokwane in its race to hook up the country’s main towns and cities to its third-generation mobile network. Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province, will have 67% network coverage for now, slightly lower

The pressures of SA’s Sim card registration law appear to have eased for mobile operator MTN, which released its subscriber numbers for its third financial quarter on Thursday. The group’s figures for SA show an increase of 3,9% to 17,7m

Triple-play services, consisting of television, telephony and broadband Internet access, delivered over the same physical cable infrastructure, are not something one typically associates with African telecommunications. Now, however, a Kenyan company, Wananchi, is planning to bring fibre connectivity to hundreds of thousands of homes in East Africa, in the process remaking how a continent thinks about what can be done with high-speed connectivity.

A consortium of IT professionals representing global big business have formed an alliance to find a way of bringing cloud computing into the business environment in a more structured way that prevents lock-in to any one computing supplier.