Government spending over the next two years will stick to the medium-term forecasts announced in February, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday. In his 2012 medium-term budget policy statement, tabled in parliament, he said the third year (2015/16) would see

Telkom’s mobile arm, 8ta, has introduced unlimited voice calls for a fixed monthly price starting at R1 199/month in an effort to tap the top-end of the contract market where users spend thousands of rand a month on their telecommunications needs

Pan-African and Middle Eastern mobile telecommunications operator, the MTN Group, now expects to add 23,7m new subscribers in 2012, up from previous guidance of 21,2m. In a quarterly update, for the period ended 30 September, MTN says it has grown its subscriber base by 3,8% to 182,7m despite

High drama unfolded at Telkom’s annual general meeting on Wednesday as communications minister Dina Pule moved to exercise her power over the company by voting against the election or reelection of nonexecutive directors and against two new share incentive schemes for management. One analyst

Outgoing Telkom chairman Lazarus Zim on Wednesday indirectly hit out at government over its decision to block the sale of 20% of the fixed-line telecommunications operator’s equity to Korea’s KT Corp, calling the move “tragic” and a “big loss”. Speaking at Telkom’s annual general meeting in front of

If anyone had any doubt that there is a price war going on in SA’s mobile market, Cell C’s latest cut to international call rates should put those doubts to bed. The company has announced a promotional rate of 85c/minute, billed per

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are intimately familiar with it. It’s been a cornerstone of Microsoft’s operating-system software since then-CEO Bill Gates unveiled Windows 95 more than 17 years ago. Yet, this Friday, when the US software giant releases Windows 8 to the general

Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel says it now has more than 60m active users in Africa. It added 10m subscribers in less than 12 months and says this growth has helped make it the fourth largest mobile operator worldwide and Airtel one of the largest players in Africa. The company

Telkom agreed to sponsor a series of 12 breakfast events hosted by The New Age newspaper this year for a whopping R1m/breakfast, correspondence in TechCentral’s possession shows. The sponsorship, for the 2012/13 financial year, marks the second year the fixed-line operator has paid

AppChat founder John Holdsworth has been denied leave to appeal against a judgment in his high-profile legal battle with Reunert, the JSE-listed company that bought ECN Telecommunications, a company he founded and led until 2011. The decision to deny