SA has been identified as one of the key emerging markets for global investors, moving up to fourth position, according…
The Competition Commission on Wednesday called for the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to play a greater regulatory role…
Cellular operators were set to receive a grilling in parliament this week. Politicians want mobile interconnection fees to come down. But it’s far from clear if the basic cost of calls will also fall. Can politicians avoid the temptation of interfering further?
It’s amazing what computer manufacturers are cramming into subnotebooks these days. The latest in the Vaio P-series line from Sony…
Simon Dingle is out this week, so Jon Tullett hosts episode 83 of SA’s most popular technology podcast. He is joined in the studio by Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Toby Shapshak. They discuss, among other things, First National Bank’s Internet banking outage
Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda on Tuesday published a policy directive on mobile termination rates, the fees mobile operators charge one…
Electricity parastatal Eskom wants a 45% tariff hike each year for the next three years. “Let’s do the hike over…
An arbitrary and ill-considered intervention to reduce cellphone interconnection rates could have unintended consequences, the national assembly’s communications committee heard…
Vodacom has agreed in principle to further discussions about its costs structures with the national assembly’s communications committee, possibly behind…
International telecommunications is an expensive business. Maintaining the networks of hundreds of thousands of kilometres of undersea fibre-optic cables that…