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Government needs to make it easier for telecommunications operators to build infrastructure, especially fibre-optic networks, as red tape and conflicting requirements are slowing the ability of companies to build broadband networks

Cellphone users should not be tempted to buy pre-registered Sim cards from traders because they contravene Rica legislation, the department of communications warned on Tuesday. “It’s illegal to buy any Sim card and get

Cellular network operator Vodacom is offering its 2011 annual report on the iPad for the first time. The group’s integrated report, which was published on Friday, is available for download in Apple’s App Store. The 221-page report is

Vodacom has denied that a network outage on Thursday was caused by sabotaged fibre optic cables. “The cause of the outage is still being determined, and we will only be able to know once we have done a post mortem on the

SA’s cellular network operators have been found wanting over service quality levels by their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). On Friday, Icasa announced the results of a quality-of-service survey

After a week’s break, TalkCentral, TechCentral’s business technology podcast, is back with a bumper show and a special podcast. In this week’s episode, we talk about Vodacom’s network outage, 8ta’s broadband special

SA cellular operators are yet to provide details of how many subscribers were disconnected from their networks on Thursday night as the deadline arrived for consumers to register their Sim cards under the Regulation of

After nearly a full workday of intermittent outages across cellular operator Vodacom’s network, which have infuriated subscribers, the company has finally provided details of what has caused the problems and promised

South Africans who do not have their Sim cards registered by the end of the day on Thursday will have their cellphone numbers deactivated. Rica is the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act, which

With just a day left before mobile operators are forced to switch off customers that haven’t registered their Sim cards, only Telkom’s 8ta has completed the process. Deputy communications minister Obed Bapela said on Wednesday