21 Namibia declined licence applications from Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink for failing to satisfy ownership and compliance criteria, the country’s telecommunications regulator said on Wednesday. A notice in the Southern…
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Why most Cisco partners leave money on the table at renewal time
41 Most partners only start paying attention to a Cisco Enterprise Agreement when it is close to expiring. That is usually where the pressure begins. The scramble to understand what has been…
Podcasters push back against regulatory overreach
44 Prominent South African podcasters have warned parliament that efforts to regulate the fledgling industry could cripple its growth, stifle innovation and have adverse economic effects. Parliament’s portfolio committee on commucations &…
Maziv plots fibre expansion blitz
47 Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare has outlined an aggressive plan to integrate the assets acquired through the landmark Vodacom transaction and ramp up fibre construction across South Africa,…
South Africa’s IoT growth will stall without infrastructure discipline
63 What began as isolated pilots – smart meters here, asset trackers there – is evolving into scaled infrastructure deployments embedded in municipal systems, logistics networks, agriculture operations and enterprise monitoring frameworks….
Seacom earnings surge as subsea cable disruptions ease
68 Image for illustration purposes only Digital infrastructure and managed services provider Seacom has delivered a sharp improvement in earnings after the subsea cable disruptions that weighed on results in the prior…
Remgro’s fibre empire roars back
82 Remgro’s fibre infrastructure arm, CIVH, has swung to profitability after the implementation of the landmark Vodacom transaction and strong operational performances from both Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa. In interim results…
The Post Office is out of options
56 Post Office business rescue practitioner Anoosh Rooplal. Photo: Tinashe Mazodze The business rescue practitioners in charge of saving the South African Post Office have on two occasions approached government for permission…
Liberty hit by data breach
59 Liberty Group has been hit by a data breach. It warned in a statement on Tuesday that it had detected unauthorised third-party access to some of its systems. The company said…
Optasia wants to do for banks what it did for telcos
58 Salvador Anglada Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada says the very same algorithms that made credit-vetting decisions via mobile wallets can be used in formal banking. Newly listed, technology-driven fintech Optasia sees the…