Communications minister Dina Pule said on Wednesday that the set-top boxes that will be subsidised for poorer households will get a “return path” to provide basic Internet access. She made the announcement at the department of communications’ ICT Indaba in Cape Town. South Africans will

Mobile operator Smile Telecoms has launched a long-term evolution (LTE) network in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, beating SA to the punch to roll out the next-generation mobile technology on a commercial basis. LTE, sometimes referred to as 4G, offers

At 7ft tall, Mayan Mathen is easy to spot in a crowd. It also means strangers find him a bit of a novelty and he says he’s often asked to be in pictures with tourists, rather than take pictures of them, when he’s travelling. Mathen does a great deal of travel in his role as chief technology officer

The Hawks were investigating allegations of corruption at MTN relating to a mobile licence in Iran, an official said on Tuesday. “There are allegations. We first did an assessment to cast the strength of the allegations. After this we decided to do a follow-up investigation,” spokesman McIntosh Polela said

Less than a week after cabinet said it would not support a proposed deal to sell 20% of Telkom’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp, deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe has told delegates at the inaugural ICT Indaba in Cape Town that SA can learn from the Asian economic powerhouse

As manufacturers, we care what the set-top box specification says. We can actually produce any box to any specification. However, we remain duty-bound not to stand by idly when there is a deliberate distortion of facts, such as is happening now on the issue of the “return path” that would allow consumers to

The Ultrabook wave is growing rapidly, with every major manufacturer now offering an ultra-portable range of thin and lightweight laptops with potent processors and the speed benefits offered by solid-state drives. Dell’s latest foray into the Ultrabook market is in its XPS range. With it, the US computer manufacturer

JSE-listed Africa Cellular Towers (ACT) has been placed into provisional liquidation after a major unnamed creditor was granted an order for the liquidation on Friday, 1 June. In a statement issued through the JSE’s Sens news service, ACT told shareholders on Monday that the company had been placed into

Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions has been granted access to a chunk of radio frequency spectrum in the 28GHz band, which it says will allow it to offer high-speed wireless point-to-multipoint services. The company says the spectrum is a suitable interim alternative to spectrum in the contested 2,6GHz and

Telkom has warned shareholders that it expects its results for the 2012 financial year, ended 31 March, to reflect a sharp decline in both basic and headline earnings. According to a statement published on the JSE’s Sens news service on Monday afternoon, the telecommunications group