MTN South Africa’s chief enterprise officer, Lambo Kanagaratnam, has resigned from the company and will be replaced by former Cisco MD Alpheus Mangale, the telecommunications operator said on Tuesday. Lambotharan is leaving the company
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Platco Digital, the parent company of free-to-air satellite television broadcaster OpenView HD, hopes its decision to lease capacity on Intelsat’s IS20 satellite – the same satellite used by MultiChoice for DStv – will help it attract newly licensed
Although many people say the future of the Internet in South Africa is mobile, new research from networking equipment manufacturer Cisco suggests it’s fixed lines and Wi-Fi hotspots that are going to drive demand the real demand for data. Fixed-line and Wi-Fi traffic made up 51% of total Internet protocol traffic in
Johannesburg-headquartered global technology services group Dimension Data has announced it is opening three new data centres as demand from businesses for cloud computing services expands. The new data centres are based in Toronto in Canada, Auckland, in New Zealand and São Paulo in Brazil. Dimension Data, which
The “last mile” fixed-line infrastructure into people homes in South Africa is “awful” and is holding back competition in South Africa’s television broadcasting industry by preventing Internet protocol television and video-on-demand players from launching services
Data traffic over mobile networks in South Africa will increase by nearly eight-fold in the next five years and grow twice as quickly as fixed Internet traffic. That’s one of the key predictions in networking vendor Cisco’s “Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update
JSE-listed computer assembler and technology distributor Mustek has sold its 41,8% stake in distributor Comztek to another JSE-listed IT company, Datatec, for R39,4m in cash and shares. Comztek’s only other major shareholder, its MD Paul Conradie – who also holds 41,8% of the equity
South Africa is one of the most improved countries in terms of mobile network performance, having shown a 50% improvement between 2011 and 2012, new research by Cisco shows. However, the country is still far behind the rest of the world when it comes to connectivity
A new SA start-up wants to challenge the incumbent phone operators with a low-cost alternative that takes advantage of the features of modern smartphones. Niqqui, which was launched a month ago, wants to offer
Networking technology giant Cisco has filed an appeal with the European Union over last October’s approval of Microsoft’s US$8,5bn acquisition of Skype. Cisco, along with Italian voice-over-Internet Protocol provider Messagenet, is challenging the decision to approve the merger because the European