SA’s technology industry grabbed more public attention in 2009 than it has in years. In spite of the recession, the news flow has been constant, and not all of it has been bad.
Undoubtedly, the biggest story of the year on the business front was Telkom’s sale and unbundling of its 50% stake in cellular group [...]
The department of communications has called a colloquium this week to seek public input on national broadband policy. Previously, it would have been little more than a talk shop. But something constructive may flow out of this meeting. Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda has breathed fresh life into a ministry left moribund by his predecessor, the late Ivy Matsepe- Casaburri
The department of communications has received about 50 written submissions from a wide range of sources ahead of next week’s colloquium on broadband policy to be held at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand.
That’s the word from departmental official Petrus Khoza, who says he has received submissions from industry players, from government representatives and from [...]
Government and the mobile operators were locked in an urgent, closed-door meeting in Pretoria on Tuesday following the collapse of talks last week aimed at bringing down mobile interconnection fees.
TechCentral has learnt that the CEOs of Vodacom SA, MTN SA and Cell C have been asked to brief communications department director-general Mamodupi Mohlala (pictured) and [...]
Some commentators have speculated that the failure of talks between MTN and India’s Bharti Airtel points to a more protectionist approach by government. If so, it’s troubling. The country ought to be opening up to investors, not scaring them away
The department of communications is developing a performance management system for councillors at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) in an effort to ensure the authority regulates more effectively.
“We are in negotiations with Icasa,” says communications department director-general Mamodupi Mohlala (pictured). “We started talks two or three weeks ago where we are putting in [...]
Newly appointed communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala says government wants mobile operators to reduce prepaid tariffs by passing on a planned reduction in interconnection fees to consumers.
At the same time, Mohlala says her department is working hard to push through an amendment to the Electronic Communications Act to make it easier for the Independent Communications Authority [...]
New communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala has promised to get tough on poor performance by state-owned enterprises that fall in her department’s portfolio, including broadcast signal distributor Sentech and public broadcaster, the SABC.
She says her department will play a “closer supervisory role” over these organisations to help them deal with problems that arise before they turn [...]
