Seacom says it still hasn’t finalised the last stretch of its undersea cable through the Red Sea in Egypt, a fact that has bedevilled the telecommunications system. A fault on the Seacom cable between Mumbai in India and Mombasa in Kenya plunged SA businesses and consumers into Internet darkness on Monday, with repairs expected to take at least a week to complete. Seacom suffered similar downtime in April when a segment
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A problem on the Seacom submarine cable system caused extensive downtime for SA Internet users on Monday. The bad news…
Seacom may soon cut international bandwidth prices. The cable operator’s first anniversary this month also marks the end of price-cutting restrictions placed on it by some of its anchor tenants. Brian Herlihy, Seacom’s president, says the agreement with anchor tenants — other telecommunications companies — ends on Seacom’s one-year anniversary on 23 July
Branded Internet, a company that specialises in providing wholesale, white-label Internet service provider solutions to SA brands like Musica and…
Seacom hopes to complete the final leg of its undersea cable system by the end of June, ending its reliance…
Undersea cable operator Seacom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigeria’s Main One and SA investment company eFive Telecoms…
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema wants government to nationalise two private sector-led telecommunications cable initiatives. The firebrand politician told supporters at a rally on Wednesday that the Seacom and East Africa Submarine System (Eassy) undersea cables should be acquired by the state
Telecommunications operator Neotel will launch its first prepaid services in the next four to six weeks as it attempts to lift its market share among retail consumers. The operator has fewer than 50 000 customers on its wireless network. “We are tying up the last set of operational issues ahead of launching
Neotel is stepping up its expansion programme, with a project that will see it deploying fibre-optic infrastructure to 300 buildings,…
MWeb dropped a bombshell on the SA Internet industry on Thursday morning when it announced it was slashing the cost of fixed-line broadband and introducing uncapped offerings starting at just R219/month. The move, which brings SA more in line with Internet prices in other markets, could spark a price war among Internet service providers in the next few months.