Commercial broadcasters M-Net and e.tv have torn strips off the department of communications over government’s decision to revisit SA’s commitment to the digital video broadcasting terrestrial (DVB-T) standard. At a joint press conference on Tuesday, both broadcasters said that if government went back on its commitment to DVB-T
A top regulatory expert has lambasted the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) over its planned auction of spectrum for…
Stafford Masie returns to the show this week, joining Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss:…
“Your weapon is choice,” boasts the box of Alpha Protocol, the new espionage roleplaying game (RPG) from Obsidian Entertainment. If…
The ongoing poor performance at Telkom’s Multi-Links subsidiary in Nigeria may have been the trigger that group chairman Jeff Molobela…
The launch of Google’s popular StreetView service in SA, meant to take place last month, was delayed due to what Google has described as the technical complexity of the project. But TechCentral understands from separate sources that the launch was put off by several weeks because, as in other countries, its StreetView vehicles had collected private details about Wi-Fi hotspots, triggering privacy concerns
Frost & Sullivan says Telkom went from “bad to worse” under the leadership of group CEO Reuben September. The analyst…
In a shock development, Telkom has announced that its group CEO, Reuben September, is to “resign from his position and…
The country’s telecommunications operators will soon have something new to worry about. Government is formulating legislation that will give industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), much bigger teeth to tackle the operators over their tariffs
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod and Finweek technology editor Simon Dingle have been named joint ICT journalists of the year at the inaugural Telkom Classic Business Journalist of the Year Awards. The awards, the ceremony for which was held at Summer Place in Sandton on Thursday, was organised to recognise excellence in