DFA targets 20 000 fibre connections in 2015

DFA aims to establish 20 000 business connections by March 2016, the end of its current financial year. This is significantly more than the company currently has in its fibre to the business network.These connections will provide businesses across South Africa with...

More needed to reduce extreme poverty

A new funding plan to deliver basic health and education for everyone is essential to end extreme poverty in Africa This is according to The ONE Campaign’s DATA Report 2015: Putting the Poorest First, released this week in Abidjan alongside the African Development...

Addressing Africa’s infrastructure deficit

The challenge of how to address Africa’s massive $100-billion annual infrastructure deficit is a step closer to being met, following a three-year project by the World Economic Forum aimed at promoting public-private co-operation and identifying solutions to the...

SDN takes off in the WAN arena

The implementation of software-defined networking is starting to take off, with organisations looking to the technology to meet their wide area networking challenges. IHS conducted in-depth surveys with 150 businesses in North America businesses about their data centres and found that 45% intend to increase spending on software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) over the next two years.

Health insurers turn to omni-channel CRM

Driven by changes in user behaviour and a strong desire to increase member satisfaction, health insurers are going with what works – a little bit of everything. The percentage of organisations distributing most or all of their communications via multiple media...

MTN calls for binding arbitration

MTN has called for a legally binding arbitration process with the company and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which could put an end to the current industrial action. This was the message from Ahmad Farroukh, CEO of MTN SA to a delegation representing the striking employees that met with management yesterday afternoon (1 June).