Mobile broadband and related industries will generate 1,8% of SA’s GDP (R72bn) and as many as 28 000 jobs by 2015, according to a new survey. But this will only be possible

In a development that could change the dynamics of SA’s telecommunications industry, mobile operator Cell C, Dimension Data division Internet Solutions and Andile Ngcaba’s Convergence Partners have teamed up to build a R5bn, 12 000km national fibre-optic network.

The DA in Gauteng has laid charges against former head of the province’s roads and transport department in connection with a tender involving axed communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda’s company.

Mozambique’s government has awarded the license for a third mobile phone provider to Movitel, a division of Vietnam’s Viettel Telecom, local media reported Tuesday. According to Radio Mocambique

Sector education and training authorities (Setas) have not failed and are expected to be more successful following consolidation in the system, higher education minister Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday.

Fast-growing Internet hosting company RSAWeb has acquired a second data centre in Cape Town, doubling its capacity as demand for cloud computing services from business customers accelerates.

Vodacom SA is stepping up its focus on mobile data as demand for broadband booms. The company, which is rolling out its own fibre network to connect its base stations, is already talking about upgrading

Vodacom is giving thought to kick-starting a new black economic empowerment (BEE) deal that TechCentral estimates could be worth as much as R20bn.

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The reduction in mobile termination rates in March has lopped R730m off Vodacom’s top line in the six months to September 2010. Vodacom chief financial officer Rob Shuter says the reduction