The high-tech industry has been working itself into paroxysms of excitement lately over an idea that is not exactly new:…
Former national police chief Jackie Selebi was the victim of a conspiracy cooked up by ex-chief prosecutors Bulelani Ngcuka and…
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This week the ZA Tech Show includes an interview with one of the world’s leading podcasters, Leo Laporte (pictured), chief TWiT at TWiT.tv. The team also discusses the collapse in the MTN-Bharti talks, interconnection rates, console prices, and much more
Silicon Cape is a new initiative aimed at fostering technology innovation in the Western Cape. But will it fly? Cape Town already represents the technology hub of the Southern African region. And as one of SA’s most successful technology entrepreneurs, Yola.com founder Vinny Lingham, says
SA’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector will generate nearly 100 000 new jobs in the next four years, according…
One wonders what was going through the minds of the Enhanced Editions team when it chose Nick Cave’s new novel,…
Newly appointed communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala says government wants mobile operators to reduce prepaid tariffs by passing on a planned…
Conspicuous for its consumer ethic, the computer industry has always embraced the belief that “more is best” — more machines,…
A flurry of initiatives aimed at achieving a reduction in mobile termination rates will provide interesting sidesdows, but beneath the politics of the moment, the real action remains an intimate dance between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the mobile networks. The initial mobile termination rate, also known as interconnection rate, of 20c/minute was set between Vodacom and MTN on 8 August 1994. This was amended on 28 May 1999, shortly after it was announced by government that a third mobile cellular telecommunications licence would be issued.