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The arrival of the Western African Cable System (Wacs), which landed in the west coast town of Yzerfontein on Tuesday will accelerate competition in the local market. But, according to experts, the impact on broadband prices may not

The battlefield is ready, the guns are out and SA’s mobile operators are shuffling troops into position for what could turn into a protracted war. The latest operator to fire a salvo into the field of battle is Telkom’s 8ta

SA and Africa have never had it so good. Almost every month brings news of some or other big broadband project. The latest, a plan to build a high-capacity cable between Brazil, SA and Angola, will bring terabits of new

Far from giving up on the retail consumer market, Neotel wants to expand its customer base by 50% in its current financial year and will spend money on new wireless base stations to deepen and extend its coverage

The first submarine fibre system to serve SA along Africa’s west coast in nine years came ashore at Yzerfontein, north of Cape Town, on Tuesday morning. The 14 000km-long West African Cable System (Wacs), with a design capacity

Cell C will ask the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to review its decision to find in favour of a complaint lodged by Vodacom against the former’s new advertising campaign. Cell C was last week forced to pull the campaign

Parliament has reappointed Marcia Socikwa as a councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for a second term. Socikwa was one of two shortlisted candidates for the position, the other

Vodacom has hinted that it will cut data prices in the next few weeks as competition in SA’s mobile industry hots up. The telecommunications group’s CEO, Pieter Uys, hinted at looming reductions in mobile

The Advertising Standards Authority, which on Thursday found almost entirely in favour of Vodacom over complaints against its rival Cell C’s controversial new advertising campaign, will now consider

Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys has slammed Cell C over its advertising campaign that targets the cellphone giant’s rebranding to the red identity of its parent Vodafone. The normally sedate Uys says Vodacom is not averse