SA was encouraged by an improving human rights situation in Zimbabwe, a foreign affairs official said on Monday. Foreign affairs director general Ayanda Ntsaluba said the government would continue to encourage Zimbabwe’s leaders, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe (pictured), to stick to their power sharing agreement made in February. “We are encouraged [...]
There is a strong case for intervention by Icasa to reduce interconnection charges between mobile operators. Here’s what needs to happen for costs to come down, writes Patricia de Lille
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed [...]
Nigeria and Iran continue to perform strongly for MTN but in its home market of SA, where the market is fast maturing, growth is stalling. MTN is performing wonders in Nigeria, where it now has about 27m subscribers, or more than twice the number of customers it has in SA. But back home, the group [...]
Icasa, the communications regulator, is mandated to champion the cause of consumers in the electronic communications market and to protect them from the worst excesses of former monopolists, cellular cartels and miscellaneous fly-by-night operators
An experiment in LAN recording produces interesting results this week as Brett Haggard, Jon Tullett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle connect to discuss Snow Leopard, mobile termination rates, console price cuts, and much more
Nigeria has emerged as the shining star in MTN’s latest set of results, overtaking SA as the largest contributor to the company’s revenue in the six months to June. At the same time, the operations in Nigeria, which were considered by many investors
Industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA, needs to be cautious in how it manages mobile interconnect rates to ensure that local telecommunications operators continue to invest billions of rand every year in new infrastructure. That’s the view of MTN Group president and CEO Phuthuma Nhleko, who says it is “simplistic” to compare interconnect [...]
Home affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will send a delegation to the department’s Pinetown offices, to investigate the suicide of a man whose ID application was torn up by an official. “We want to determine the identity of the official who handled the application. A course of action will be recommended once we understand the circumstances,” [...]
Sean Siler would never be mistaken for a movie star. A former Navy officer who wears glasses and is a tad on the heavy side, Siler works at Microsoft, where he oversees the Windows division’s adoption of new Internet connectivity software called IPv6. But there were audible gasps last summer when Siler, 39, auditioned for [...]
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