Conduct Telecommunications, a “last-mile” fibre-optic telecommunications operator owned by the Birchman Group, plans to extend its high-speed access network to more suburbs in Johannesburg in the next few months, including to Rosebank, Chislehurston and Rivonia. The company, which has raised funding from the Industrial Development Corp
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Multinational consulting and managed services company, the Birchman Group, is entering SA’s telecommunications market with plans, eventually, to invest billions of rand in a national wholesale fibre-optic network to connect small, medium and large enterprises to high-speed broadband. The company, which has
Despite the costs and manpower it’s supposed to save, cloud computing will lead to the creation of 68 000 new jobs in SA this year, and a further 82 000 in 2013, a new research study predicts. The research, conducted by analyst firm IDC on behalf of Microsoft, suggests the effect will be more pronounced with
On Digital Media (ODM), owner of satellite pay-TV service TopTV, has confirmed the company’s board is in talks with CEO Vino Govender about a “mutual separation”. In a statement, ODM chairman Eddie Mbalo says the board is “in discussions with the CEO on a mutual separation, but those discussions are not
Public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba wants all parastatals to be brought under his department to drive economic growth, he told the Sunday Times at the weekend. His department currently controlled eight parastatals, including SAA, Transnet, Eskom and Denel. With the exception of Broadband Infraco
“Renewable energy, as a reaction to peak oil and climate change, is probably the most important economic boom that will occur in our lifetimes.” This quote from Craig Shields prefaced a sales pitch for the Joule
The governments of Brazil, China, Russia, India and SA have agreed to support a new, R3bn undersea cable that will connect Brazil with SA and Angola, and provide the region with onward connectivity
There is a direct link between high levels of software piracy and poor economic growth. The higher the rate of piracy, the more likely a country’s economy will stagnate
SA’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector will generate nearly 100 000 new jobs in the next four years, according…
iBurst Africa, a telecommunications business controlled by iBurst executive chairman Thami Mtshali, wants to raise as much as US$200m in…