Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, last week introduced a mobile broadband special offer that deeply undercuts its parent’s own fixed-line broadband prices. It’s a bizarre situation that underscores Telkom’s lack of a coherent long-term
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Naspers MD Koos Bekker has lamented the lack of broadband in SA, describing it as a “tragic story” created by a decade of poor regulation. Speaking on Talk Radio 702’s The Money Show with Bruce Whitfield on Monday evening, Bekker
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has proposed four separate models for unbundling the fixed-line local loop, which would give Telkom’s rivals access to the company’s “last mile” of copper cable infrastructure
Local-loop unbundling poses a “major risk” to Telkom, says its group CEO, Nombulelo Moholi. Unbundling will allow rival operators access to Telkom’s last mile of copper-cable infrastructure in businesses and homes. Moholi says
SA’s information and communication technologies (ICT) market grew to R179bn last year, communications minister Roy Padayachie said on Tuesday. Speaking during debate on his department’s budget in the national assembly, he told MPs it was
Communications minister Roy Padayachie will issue a policy directive to telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to conduct a review of the so-called “digital dividend” spectrum
Communications minister Roy Padayachie says the country is on track to switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by December 2013, paving the way for spectrum that will be freed up through the migration
Communications minister Roy Padayachie has finally moved to fill the vacant director-generalship at the department of communications. He has appointed Rosey Sekese as DG for five years, with effect from 1 June
When broadcasters switch to digital television, a valuable chunk of radio frequency spectrum will be freed up for broadband. The country ought to have a debate now about how to use this spectrum to bring affordable Internet
The department of communications has yet to find a candidate to fill its long-vacant position of director-general. However, Tiyani Rikhotso, spokesman for communications minister Roy Padayachie, says the process is