Browsing: Sentech

Sentech should concentrate on building SA’s digital terrestrial television broadcasting network and forget about trying to involve itself, again, in building a national broadband telecommunications network

State-owned Sentech plans to spend R814m over three years to build a national wireless broadband network. The company’s management team last week provided the first insights into its plans

“Sentech is dysfunctional.” These were the opening words of a column my colleague Duncan McLeod wrote in September last year. Make no mistake: the state-owned signal distributor was in more trouble

Last year, the auditor-general was concerned about state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech’s ability to continue as a going concern. But the company appears to be on the mend following

In this week’s show we talk about Sentech’s presentation to parliament and the emerging details of its plan to build a broadband network connecting rural schools, clinics and community centres. We also delve into

State-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech on Friday provided the first insights into its plans to have another go at building a national broadband network. Sentech outlined its plans to parliament’s portfolio committee

Communications minister Roy Padayachie’s meeting on Friday with executives of 30 of SA’s largest technology companies was well received. It has helped establish a much-needed discourse between government and

National treasury has allocated a significant budget to the department of communications over the next three years to assist in the country’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television

Former Independent Communications of Authority of SA (Icasa) chairman Paris Mashile has been appointed as a nonexecutive director of state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech