Africa’s undersea cable boom continues

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Yet another undersea cable has been commissioned for the coast of Africa. When it’s built next year, it will bring total capacity encircling the continent to more than 20,2Tbit/s. In the year 2000 Africa’s total international

Thieves steal Sim cards from Jo’burg traffic lights

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The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) suspects that a syndicate is stealing Sim cards from the city’s hi-tech traffic lights, and using them to run up phone bills. More than 400 of the city’s 600 hi-tech traffic lights

Cabinet chooses T2 for digital TV

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It’s official! SA will adopt the European standard for digital terrestrial television, TechCentral can reveal exclusively. Furthermore, the country will implement the second generation of the standard, known as DVB-T2

Unplugged: life off the grid

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The salesman at the solar power shop told me: “You have no idea how stupid batteries are.” That comment made me wonder about his intelligence, so it took me some time to realise the canny wisdom of this apparently dim statement

Two centres of power at MTN ‘unlikely’

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There is little risk of MTN creating two centres of power, one around CEO-designate Sifiso Dabengwa and the other around the still-to-be-appointed CEO of MTN International. That’s the view of Kristoff Puelinckx

Trouble at Neotel as retrenchments loom

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There’s no cheer this Christmas for Neotel employees. The operator has notified staff that retrenchments are looming, blaming the weak global economy for the move. But company insiders say Neotel, which has more

Joosub to take reins at Vodafone in Spain

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Vodacom SA MD Shameel Joosub is poised to take a senior position at Vodafone España, TechCentral has established from two sources close to the SA cellular network operator. TechCentral reported on Monday that Joosub would leave Vodacom soon to take up a senior position at Vodafone in Europe

Vodacom in fresh attempt to save DRC unit

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Vodacom and the minority shareholder in its subsidiary in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Congolese Wireless Network (CWN), have agreed to appoint NM Rothschild & Sons to explore options for Vodacom Congo. Vodacom and CWN have

Lessons from SA’s data centre boom

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Despite the tough economy, at least one area of business is booming. Data centres, some of them vast structures costing hundreds of millions of rand each, are popping up across the countryside. We have the free market to thank