SA Connect: getting off the ground

Kathy Gibson reports from SATNAC 2015 – The South African government is beginning to implement its broadband policy, SA Connect, with a number of initiatives to be rolled out this year. This is the word from Dr Siyabonga Cwele, minister of telecommunications and...

Monarchy adds £44bn to the UK economy

This week (9 September), Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest serving monarch in British history, having acceded to the throne on 6 February 1952 and breaking Queen Victoria’s record of 23 226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes will soon be broken. This...

Desire to cut complexity drives storage

Total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew 2,1% year over year to $8,8-billion during the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Revenue growth was...

Telkom migrates LTE customers up

Telkom will be automatically migrating Home and Business LTE and LTE-A plans to the recently-introduced higher value SmartBroadband Wireless (LTE) and SmartBroadband Wireless LTE-A plans as of 1 October 2015. The new plans will give customers added value in terms of...

Slow growth for large format printers

According to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Large Format Printer Tracker, large format printer (LFP) shipments increased by 1,3% from the second quarter of 2014 to the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15) while revenue was flat....
Local loop unbundles at last

Local loop unbundles at last

Telkom will begin the long-awaited process of local loop unbundling (LLU), but challenges the mobile telecommunications operators to come to the party.