In the one month since its launch, Telkom’s new mobile service 8ta has signed up 186 033 new customers, the JSE-listed telecommunications operator said in notes accompanying its interim financial results, published on Monday.

Communications minister Roy Padayachie has withdrawn the controversial Public Service Broadcasting Bill pending further consultation, and wants to consider new models for funding the SABC and community media.

With 2010 on life support, Ben Kelly and Brett Haggard hook up with Simon Dingle to talk tech. They discuss the launch of Cell C’s new network in Gauteng, discuss ADSL’s local inadequacies, talk about the MacBook Air, and wonder about Xbox Live and Kinect in SA

What is a superstar, a living legend like John Cleese doing in a mining town like Jo’burg? This is the question that Cleese dryly poses to the audience gathered for a premiere of his new movie Spud at Montecasino in Johannesburg last Saturday night.

Episode 16 of TechCentral’s business technology podcast TalkCentral is ready for streaming or downloading. In the latest episode, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones reflect on Cell C’s mobile broadband launch in Gauteng and the new data tariffs on offer.

Where will the money come from? This is the key question arising from confusion over cabinet’s decision to “support” — as opposed to authorise — a proposed additional R20bn for power utility Eskom.

SA’s bid to host the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), could bring the country as much as €200m (R1,9bn) a year. This according to an inter-ministerial committee, which is leading SA’s bid for the project.

TopTV will launch high-definition channels next year as it takes its fight for subscribers with incumbent pay-TV operator MultiChoice to the next level. The company, owned by On Digital Media (ODM), says it expects to launch

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) told Siphiwe Nyanda, the former communications minister, in no uncertain terms, that it does not consider it viable to abolish licence fees and fund the debt-plagued SABC using personal income tax.

Open-source specialist Synaq has teamed up with AlwaysOn hotspots and Vox DataPro to allow its customers access to cloud-based mail without paying for the bandwidth to access it. Synaq MD Yossi Hasson says the acceptance