Newly appointed communications minister Roy Padayachie has used his first press conference to speak out in favour of freedom of the media. “We will always respect the right of media

State-owned Broadband Infraco, created by government to bring down national telecommunications costs, is finally launching commercial services next week. But the company’s mandate has already

Government has extended the contract of Telkom chairman Jeff Molobela, but only until the end of December, TechCentral has learnt from a senior source at the JSE-listed telecommunications group.

There’s no end to the news flow in SA’s telecommunications industry. The big news this week is the new joint venture between Cell C, Convergence Partners and Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, FibreCo, which will build a national transmission network at an eventual cost of R5bn.

Amid whisky and Movember challenges, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Nic Callegari join host Simon Dingle to discuss Roy Padayachie’s appointment as minister of communications, the new MacBook Air as a real computer, the ANC Youth League’s embarrassing attack on Twitter, and much more

Brett Haggard is at the steering wheel again this week with panelists Andy Hadfield and Jon Tullett along for the ride. They discuss the MWeb leak of user details, local peering movements, Limewire’s legal losses and piracy, eBook readers and the new Nook, and lots more

The launch of mobile operator 8ta and a wage agreement with trade unions will hit Telkom’s earnings in the six months to 30 September 2010, the JSE-listed telecommunications group has warned.

Quraysh Patel has resigned as chairman of the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech. Patel handed his resignation to communications minister Roy Padayachie on Tuesday.

If you ask a 20-year-old in 2020 to spot the odd one out of this list — TV, radio, mobile phone, Internet — they may not be able to. We’re accustomed to think about these mediums as separate entities, and in terms of production they still are.