SA is about to auction off a chunk of radio frequency spectrum that can be used to provide wireless broadband services. Let’s hope our operators don’t do what their European counterparts did a decade ago with 3G spectrum. It’s known as the great telecommunications crash of 2001. Mobile operators in the UK and Germany bid ridiculous amounts — cumulatively, hundreds of billions of rand
Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda has named four new councillors to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). They are Ntombizodwa…
Skyrove, a specialist wireless hotspot company, plans to launch an audacious bid for national radio frequency spectrum and, if it gets it, it plans to build a network to take on the country’s incumbent mobile operators. The company, run by CEO Henk Kleynhans, plans to participate in an auction for national radio frequency in the 2,6GHz ba
SA looks likely to ditch its 2006 decision to adopt Europe’s digital video broadcasting terrestrial (DVB-T) standard for digital terrestrial…
Is a price war looming in the local Web hosting market? It appears that big changes may be coming that…
Eskom posted a R3,6bn net profit for the 2009/10 year, the electricity parastatal said on Wednesday. The previous year the…
Mobile instant messaging provider MXit was voted number one by SA youth, beating a formidable list of global players like Facebook, YouTube and Yahoo, a survey showed on Wednesday. The survey, which was part of the Sunday Times Generation Next Survey, interviewed more than 5 800 youth from six provinces. MXit took first place for best cellphone application and best social networking applica
The first thing that came to mind when I unpacked Samsung’s new B7330 OmniaPro smartphone was that it looked almost…
The final switch-over date from analogue to digital broadcasting could be delayed by at least a few months, communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda said on Tuesday. This was due to a review of the technical standards currently being undertaken, he told the national assembly’s communications committee. The department of communications surprised the broadcasting industry recently when it said it was no longer necessarily committed to the European digital video
Telkom has submitted a proposal to resolve salary disparities among employees in two of its divisions, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday. “Employees’ discontentment over the salary disparities has reached boiling point, but Telkom’s new proposal is a clear indication that the company recognises the seriousness of the situation and