IBM is ramping up its investment in Africa dramatically, with plans to open offices in six new markets, extending its…
Listed telecommunications company Vodacom will appear before the Competition Tribunal on 26 April. The tribunal said on Wednesday that Gogga…
The decision last week by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to reduce mobile termination rates was not unexpected. What the industry didn’t expect was for the regulator to move as quickly as it has to reduce fixed-line rates
The effect of a reduction in wholesale mobile call termination rates on JSE-listed technology group Altech’s cellphone service provider subsidiary,…
Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle make up your panel this week. Among other things, they discuss the delayed international launch of the iPad, the Microsoft Kin, Opera Mini on the iPhone and Icasa’s pronouncements on termination rates
South Africans will have universal access to broadband by 2019, communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda said in his budget speech in…
Protracted delays in issuing licensed radio frequency spectrum to new operators cost the country hundreds of millions of rand in…
The latest edition of the magazine, African Communications, carries a feature article by Arthur Goldstuck on the key trends in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector since last year. In it, he states
Construction of the East Africa Submarine System (Eassy), the second high-capacity fibre-optic cable along Africa’s east coast, was completed on…
Vodacom looked set on a collision course with its former shareholder, fixed-line operator Telkom, on Tuesday as it officially launched…