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Sita again struck by downtime
The State IT Agency, which provides centralised IT services to the public sector, was again hit by downtime on Monday, the second time this has happened in three days.
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Free Wi-Fi must be rolled out countrywide, ANC resolves
Free Wi-Fi must be provided to communities in both metropolitan and rural areas, and to all public schools, clinics and libraries, the ANC has resolved. The resolution is contained in the report of the party’s 54th
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Government faces more criticism over Woan plan
Civil society groups Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition have blasted government’s plan to create a wholesale open-access network, or Woan, saying in a submission to the department of telecommunications
Marian Shinn
Another state company for broadband just won’t cut it
There is reason to be sceptical about the department of telecommunications & postal services’ revised South African Connect roll-out plan to connect 90% of the population to the Internet by 2020
Podcasts
TalkCentral: Ep 183 – ‘Crisis at SAP’
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg dissect the crisis facing SAP in South Africa and analyse how it’s managed things so far (short version: not terribly well). Also this week, why
Duncan McLeod
Government distrust of telecoms operators is a big problem
So, government is considering merging Broadband Infraco and Sentech. This makes little sense and suggests the ANC is so blinded by its ideological opposition to privatisation that it won’t make decisions that are patently in
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State said to mull Infraco, Sentech merger
South Africa is considering a merger of state-owned technology companies Broadband Infraco and Sentech to help accelerate the roll-out of high-speed Internet to the population within three years, according to two people
In-depth
Sona 2017: what’s in store for ICT?
The 2017 state-of-the-nation address takes place today, 9 February. In the weeks that follow, the nine premiers will deliver their state-of-the-province addresses. The purpose of these addresses is to outline government policy
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FibreCo poaches top Infraco executive
National fibre operator FibreCo Telecommunications has poached Broadband Infraco’s Sammy Mafu as its new business development executive. Mafu, who was chief marketing and sales officer at the state-owned
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SA Connect broadband tender cancelled
The State IT Agency (Sita) has cancelled a tender for the construction of a rural broadband network under the South Africa Connect broadband strategy. Late last week, Sita published a notice in the