The SABC on Friday said the payment of television licences remained in force, for now, as a new bill seeking to abolish TV licences was published for comment.
“The bill is currently a discussion document which still has to go through a public consultation process and various legislative processes before it becomes law,” the broadcaster said [...]
Borderlands, the new game from Gearbox Software, is based on a simple but inspired elevator pitch: it’s “Diablo with guns”, an attempt to craft a cooperative role-playing shooter that offers the best of both worlds.
Set on a distant planet called Pandora, Borderlands is about four mercenaries out to find a legendary vault that is thought [...]
He may work in a futuristic, hi-tech industry, but Derek Wilcocks admits he is fascinated by the past.
The newly appointed MD of Dimension Data division Internet Solutions (IS) has a keen interest in world and African history.
Wilcocks, who has just taken the reins at IS from Angus MacRobert, says the transition from the Dark Ages [...]
Television licence fees are to be scrapped. That’s the proposal contained in the draft Public Service Broadcasting Bill, which has been published for further public comment. The bill seeks to repeal the Broadcasting Act of 1999.
The department of communications says the bill is in response to communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda’s call for a “new vision [...]
Telkom is hoping the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein will throw it a lifeline next week. A court ruling in the telecommunications operator’s favour could mean it escaping having to fork over what could amount to billions of rand in fines for alleged anticompetitive behaviour.
Telkom stands accused of abusing its dominance in the Internet [...]
MTN SA is losing customers, with the operator’s subscriber base down by more than 800 000 in the quarter ended 30 September. The company has laid the blame squarely at the door of new legislation meant to deal with crime.
“SA’s subscriber base has declined from 17,2m to 16,4m… The main reason for the movement is [...]
SA isn’t the only country where pressure is mounting on mobile operators to slash the rates they charge to carry calls from other operators on their networks.
In the UK, BT Group (formerly British Telecom) and mobile phone company 3 this week handed a 114 000-strong petition to the British telecommunications regulator Ofcom demanding that interconnection [...]
Tensions are rising between SA’s mobile operators over interconnection fees. MTN SA CEO Karel Pienaar has slammed a proposal by his counterpart at Cell C, Lars Reichelt, that Cell C should benefit through the introduction of an asymmetric tariff regime.
Reichelt wants interconnection fees to be skewed in Cell C’s favour so that it pays MTN [...]
In a move that is likely to be seen as an attack on yet another industry, Google on Wednesday introduced a free navigation system for mobile phones that offers turn-by-turn directions, The New York Times reports.
Analysts said that Google’s free service, if successful, could erode the sales of GPS navigation devices made by companies like [...]
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) wants more time to deal with the issue of mobile interconnection fees.
Just days after saying it would conclude the process of bringing down the fees — which the mobile operators charge others to carry calls on their networks — by 31 March 2010, the authority now says it [...]
