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Sentech loses chief operating officer

Sentech’s acting chief operating officer, Dingane Dube, has left the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor to pursue “personal business interests”. Dube, a long-serving executive at the company, left its employ on 21 July, says spokesman Nthabeleng Mokotim

15 August 2011Comments OffRead More

Inside Sentech’s new broadband plan

State-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech is considering WiMax technology, using radio frequency spectrum it has already been assigned, to build its planned R1,1bn national broadband network. The company has already been licensed

13 April 20117 CommentsRead More

Sentech needs R250m more for broadband

Sentech says its national broadband network will cost between R1,1bn and R1,2bn over the next three years, leaving the company short of R250m in financing to build the infrastructure. The state-owned company has set aside

13 April 20117 CommentsRead More

Sentech to pump R800m into broadband network

State-owned Sentech plans to spend R814m over three years to build a national wireless broadband network. The company’s management team last week provided the first insights into its plans

30 March 201111 CommentsRead More

Sentech: from zero to potential hero

“Sentech is dysfunctional.” These were the opening words of a column my colleague Duncan McLeod wrote in September last year. Make no mistake: the state-owned signal distributor was in more trouble

28 March 201111 CommentsRead More

Sentech on the mend

Last year, the auditor-general was concerned about state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech’s ability to continue as a going concern. But the company appears to be on the mend following

28 March 2011Comments OffRead More

Sentech outlines new broadband plan

State-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech on Friday provided the first insights into its plans to have another go at building a national broadband network. Sentech outlined its plans to parliament’s portfolio committee

25 March 20113 CommentsRead More

Why Sentech will miss Patel

The resignation of Sentech chairman Quraysh Patel after just seven months in the job has left many concerned about the state-owned company’s future. His work at the troubled broadcasting signal

12 November 20102 CommentsRead More

Mohapi vows to shake up Sentech

Sentech looks set to close loss-making divisions, including its once much-vaunted telecommunications carrier-of-carriers division and its direct-to-home satellite television business, to focus on its core business of signal distribution.

3 November 20102 CommentsRead More

Mohapi is new Sentech boss

A former senior Telkom executive, Setumo Mohapi, will be appointed as the new CEO of broadcasting signal distributor Sentech later this month. TechCentral has learnt from a reliable political source that

21 October 20101 CommentRead More

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