It’s like a movie about America’s Old West. Except this is SA, and it’s not a gripping story on the silver screen where actors get shot, dust themselves off, have a good laugh, and head back to their trailers. No, in the Wild West we’re heading into
We’re in our new studio space this week, echoes, unpainted walls and all. Brett Haggard, Don Packett, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle are your panel this week. We discuss Cell C, in-flight Wi-Fi and much more
Residents of Craigavon in Fourways, north of Johannesburg, have vowed to fight wireless broadband provider iBurst to the bitter end over a base station they claim is harming their health.
Tracey-Lee Dorny, who is spearheading an initiative to have the iBurst tower removed, says the residents will not back down, despite claims this week by iBurst [...]
Wireless broadband provider iBurst believes it has definitive proof that a base station it operates in Fourways, north of Johannesburg, is not to blame for health problems afflicting some of the residents there.
Residents of the Fourways community of Craigavon have threatened to take iBurst to court to have the base station removed, alleging that radiation [...]
Wireless broadband operator iBurst and a community in Fourways, north of Johannesburg, are at loggerheads over the construction of a base station that some residents of the neighbourhood claim is resulting in serious health problems.
The tower, at Fourways Memorial in the small suburb of Craigavon, was switched on on 12 August 2009. Since then, residents [...]
Vodacom could sell its 24,9% stake in iBurst holding company Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) if a technology known as Long-Term Evolution, or LTE, proves more popular than WiMax in providing fourth-generation wireless services.
That’s the word from Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys (pictured), who was speaking to TechCentral in Sandton on Monday following the publication of [...]
Wireless broadband operator iBurst is reducing its headcount by about 20% as part of a restructuring meant to cut costs and improve efficiencies.
TechCentral understands that about 60 or 70 employees are affected by the cuts, which are being done through a voluntary retrenchment process.
“We’ve been through this restructuring which means we need fewer people,” says [...]
Mike Brown, MD of wireless telecommunications operator Broadlink, has come a long way from his place of birth in Chingola in Zambia’s copper belt. Brown, 44, who spent the early part of his career at electronics group Nashua, is hoping to build Broadlink, a subsidiary of WBS Holdings in which he holds a minority stake, into a significant alternative infrastructure operator in the business market in SA
iBurst Africa, a telecommunications business controlled by iBurst executive chairman Thami Mtshali, wants to raise as much as US$200m in funding as it pursues broadband opportunities across the African continent, including Nigeria.
However, plans to reverse list into a cash shell on the JSE have been set back by at least two months. This is as [...]
