Data delivers for Vodacom
Strong smartphone sales and continued robust demand for data services have again underpinned Vodacom’s financial performance. In the financial year ended 31 March 2013, the group lifted data revenue by 22,2%, helping it grow overall revenue by 4,5% over 2012 to R69,9bn. Operating profit climbed by
DOC unleashes bile on newspaper
The department of communications, which recently appointed a new spin doctor in the form of Wisani Ngobeni to manage the growing fall-out over allegations of nepotism and corruption against its minister, Dina Pule, has again gone on the attack against the Sunday Times. At the weekend, Ngobeni
How ‘white spaces’ could change the world
It has an arcane name and involves complex communications technology, but there’s every reason you and I should be getting very excited indeed about “television white spaces”, the gaps in spectrum between broadcast television channels. Google and Microsoft are pouring millions of dollars
Altech soars on Altron buy-out offer
Altron has made an offer to buy out the minority shareholders in its subsidiary Altech, the two JSE-listed companies announced on Friday. The move sent Altech’s share price soaring by more than 30% on Friday afternoon, shortly after news of the offer was published. The move had been widely expected
Mthembu quits Gijima board
Gijima nonexecutive director Andrew Mthembu has resigned from the board of the troubled JSE-listed technology services company after nine years as a director. Mthembu was Gijima’s lead independent director and chairman of the remuneration committee. The resignation is with immediate
Telkom calls time on telex
Telkom looks set to shut down its telex network because of lack of use and ever-shrinking revenues from the ageing service. The move is expected to affect as many as 26 employees. The move comes as a long-running legal battle finally heads to the high court in Pretoria next week. Telkom is facing a
Adapt or die for mobile operators
As their markets become saturated and as lower-margin data overtakes voice as the primary traffic on their networks, mobile operators are going to have to change dramatically, altering their operating models, cutting costs and completely reshaping their cultures, if they’re to continue to survive, let
Naspers leaps on Tencent numbers
Media and technology group Naspers’s share price touched fresh record highs on Wednesday after China’s largest Internet company, Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, beat analysts’ expectations in the first quarter. According to Bloomberg, net income of just over 4 billion
Icann greenlights .durban domain
The application for the .durban domain has passed the initial evaluation phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), meaning it’s likely websites with .durban appended to their addresses will make an appearance this year. That’s according to the .ZA Domain
Mixed performance from Datatec
Johannesburg-listed multinational technology distribution and services group Datatec has reported a slight decline in headline earnings per share for its financial year ended 28 February 2013, despite a 4% improvement at the top line and a strong performance by its Logicalis subsidiary
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