Last year, the Competition Tribunal prohibited Vodacom’s purchase of a stake in Remgro’s fibre businesses — Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa (DFA). But then, South Africa’s minister of trade, industry and competition, Parks Tau, submitted notice to appeal. This is worrying. While Vodacom marketed the proposed transaction as an effort to “connect underserved communities”, a […]
The Telkom-Rain deal is still on the table but analysts are divided on whether it will be successful
MTN SA has made two new executive appointments, in its technology and fibre divisions, as part of its efforts for it to grow its fibre business
The new mobile licence conditions, which insist networks provide educational content for free, will start to bridge the digital divide
The transmission of information through particles of light may be the solution to closing the gap between the internet haves and have-nots
The issue of net neutrality isn’t black and white, displaying both positive and negative consequences
The government plans to merge several state-owned companies to form one broadband firm to fast-track internet access in the country
Lowering mobile data costs and offering free internet are some of the ways to increase accessibility to online spaces, writes Indra de Lanerolle.
The Africa Coast to Europe cable is likely the last major system to land in SA for a while, but help with redundancy and choice may bring costs down.
A delay in policy directive is raising the stakes in the telecommunications sector’s battle for high-speed spectrum.
Despite serious questions about its deal with Icasa, the firm remains hot property
The communication department has set a target of "universal" broadband access. But if it is similar to our water access, it won’t be universal at all.
Microsoft and Google are racing to fine tune a technology that could ultimately bring cheap broadband to the entire African continent.
The migration to digital terrestrial television and other delays are hampering broadband rollout.
A comment by Toby Shapshak, the editor and publisher of Stuff magazine.
A comment by Alphonzo Samuel, the managing executive for network infrastructure provisioning at Telkom SA.
New Communications Minister Yunus Carrim took reader questions on broadband, the SABC and more in our live M&G Hangout. Watch the highlights.
The introduction of high-speed broadband is the company’s best hope of turning sentiment around.
We need to start seeing broadband as a vital service and treating those who threaten it with severity, writes Alistair Fairweather.
The government’s delays in improving broadband internet access have a negative impact on SA’s economy, rankings by the World Economic Forum has shown.
The United Kingdom will need to invest £15-billion in broadband if it is to avoid being frozen out of next industrial revolution.
Consumers can look forward to even cheaper broadband prices, with many new undersea cables set to come online within the next 18 months.
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/ 14 December 2011
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has outlined a framework for licensing of high demand spectrum for broadband.
The news that Telkom’s data revenue had shrunk, could be the final straw to investors still toying with the view that Telkom is neglected.
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/ 30 September 2011
Embattled telecommunications operator Telkom has unveiled its unrestricted internet product range tailored towards evening usage.
8ta’s package is so aggressive, it has even undercut parent company Telkom’s ADSL service.
The arrival of the Western African Cable System (WACs) will accelerate competition in the local broadband market.
Sentech is ignoring previous failings and will once again play in the wireless broadband space at the taxpayer’s expense.
Broadband Infraco is a ‘carrier of carriers’ and sells high capacity, national and international long distance network services to other carriers.
Cell C’s rolling out of its new network seems to be paying dividends.
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/ 10 November 2010
Cell C, Internet Solutions and Convergence Partners are developing a new broadband network, FibreCo Telecommunications said on Wednesday.