Telecommunications operator Neotel will launch its first prepaid services in the next four to six weeks as it attempts to lift its market share among retail consumers. The operator has fewer than 50 000 customers on its wireless network. “We are tying up the last set of operational issues ahead of launching

Neotel is stepping up its expansion programme, with a project that will see it deploying fibre-optic infrastructure to 300 buildings,…

A full-blown price war has erupted in fixed-line broadband in SA. Internet service providers are racing to outdo each other to provide unmetered bandwidth cheaper. This is great for consumers and the economy, but it should have happened 10 years ago.

SA will get its own communications satellite dedicated to the 2010 soccer World Cup. The satellite, from international communication satellite operator Intelsat, will be used exclusively for carrying the

Your hosts this week are Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle. And what a week it was on the technology news front in SA, what with MWeb introducing SA’s first (relatively) affordable uncapped broadband packages and MultiChoice rival On Digital Media taking the wraps off TopTV

On Tuesday afternoon, Internet service provider Afrihost announced it was leaping feet first into SA’s rapidly escalating fixed-line broadband price…