Media Monitoring Africa suggested several solutions including free access to the internet at all government sites such as schools and libraries

As fibre-to-the-home rolls out in earnest across suburban South Africa, the army with the most weapons is being left behind on the field of battle.

Two men who took MWeb to the advertising authority over its uncapped ADSL offer have lost the case, with the firm saying the pair abused the service.

The winds of change are sweeping through Telkom, or at least that’s what its leadership would like us to believe. But it might already be too late.

Internet service provider MWeb on Thursday claimed to be the first major player in SA to offer uncapped ADSL on a significant scale.

Telkom says it cannot be blamed for slow broadband services at a Durban-based company which claims a pigeon can carry its data bundles faster.

A South African IT company on Wednesday proved it was faster to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom.

Winston the pigeon is not only the most tech-savvy pigeon in the world, but he also carries himself — and data bundles — remarkably well.