More than 17 years after SA’s first democratic elections, politicians are still indecisive over how to extend connectivity into rural areas and bridge the so-called “digital divide”. Government continues to concoct ideologically confused plans. Instead, it should just get
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“White spaces.” These chunks of radio frequency spectrum allocated to broadcasters but not used could hold the solution to SA’s electronic communications challenges. Steve Song, founder of Village Telco — a social enterprise that uses open-source
Public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba has again raised the possibility of a merger between state-owned enterprises Sentech and Broadband Infraco, but says nothing is imminent. “It would be the culmination of a process,” Gigaba says. There has been talk for at
Communications minister Roy Padayachie has provided a little more clarity on government’s thinking about digital terrestrial television and what it would like to see happening once broadcasters switch off their analogue signals freeing up
The department of communications is working on a number of long overdue projects that could have a profound impact on the technology sector. If it delivers on its new approach, SA has a good chance of building a more competitive
Sentech’s acting chief operating officer, Dingane Dube, has left the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor to pursue “personal business interests”. Dube, a long-serving executive at the company, left its employ on 21 July, says spokesman Nthabeleng Mokotim
Sentech’s failure to better encrypt its signal to prevent pirate viewing in Botswana, is damaging business for e.tv’s sister channel, the high court in Johannesburg heard on Thursday. Representing eBotswana, advocate Steven Budlender
eBotswana, a sister company of SA free-to-air television broadcaster e.tv, is in court this week seeking an application against state-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech over the latter’s alleged failure to secure the encryption on its Vivid digital
Sentech has appointed Protas Phili as its new chief financial officer. He was appointed by communications minister Roy Padayachie for a five-year term beginning on 1 August. Phili is a chartered accountant who also holds a
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