Seacom may soon cut international bandwidth prices. The cable operator’s first anniversary this month also marks the end of price-cutting restrictions placed on it by some of its anchor tenants. Brian Herlihy, Seacom’s president, says the agreement with anchor tenants — other telecommunications companies — ends on Seacom’s one-year anniversary on 23 July

MultiChoice is cementing its dominance in local sports broadcasting. Its subsidiary, SuperSport, will launch a new, dedicated, high-definition football channel,…

Your panel of technology pundits this week includes Brett Haggard, Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod. They join Simon Dingle to discuss the Samsung Galaxy S, iPhone 4 antenna woes, interconnection fees, Cisco’s tablet and much, much more

SA is getting a new fixed-line telecommunications network operator, TechCentral can report exclusively. The company, called Metrofibre Networx, enjoys the backing of several heavy hitters, including former Absa CEO Steve Booysen and Dark Fibre Africa co-founder Malcolm Kirby. Metrofibre Networx, which is led by Kirby, will focus almost exclusively on delivering high-speed fibre connectivity to businesses

West African undersea cable Main One has gone live two weeks before schedule. The 1,92Gbit/s cable links Nigeria to Portugal,…

We are heading into the last four games of the Fifa World Cup 2010, and if there is one thing that we can take away from the games played so far, it’s that Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s vehement resistance to the use of technology has become untenable. Sports such as rugby and tennis have shot past football in their use of technology, but thanks to the tight grip of the Fifa board

The controversial Elephant Consortium is being unwound, with the beneficiaries, including former communications department director-general Andile Ngcaba, potentially earning a…

One day in February 2003, there was a massive disturbance in the force, as if the voices of millions of geeks suddenly cried out in anguish. They’d just learnt that Matt Groening’s animated science-fiction series, Futurama, had been cancelled in its fourth season by the bigwigs at Fox Television. The off-the-wall television show originally ran for a respectable four seasons between 1999 and 2003, but was never as much of a hit as Groening’s other show, The Simpsons. Everyone knows The Simpsons’ catch phrases, but

Stephen Mncube, the newly inaugurated chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), says his plan is to focus…

Airports Company SA has confirmed a network failure across OR Tambo International airport disrupted passenger check-ins on Thursday. The delays…