Neotel partners with WAPA

In order to improve telecommunications access across the towns and under-serviced areas in South Africa, Neotel has partnered with the Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) as a full member. The partnership gives Neotel access to WAPA resources and...

Ericsson named leader in Magic Quadrant

Ericsson has announced that Gartner has positioned Ericsson as an LTE industry leader within the “Leaders” quadrant of its Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for LTE Infrastructure report for the fifth year in a row. Gartner, the world’s leading information...

Broadband price war soars to new level

The Minister of Communications, Yunus Carrim, recently met with the Council of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), and urged all parties to work together to cut communications costs in South Africa. The broadband market is becoming ever...

Turning data into revenue

Data monetisation – the art of turning information into actions that generate business revenue – is generating a lot of interest among enterprises around the world. The possibility that information can be collated and analysed, to deliver the silver bullets that...

Network Platforms connects to Akamai

Getting faster Internet speed usually involves spending more money on bigger bandwidth. But the innovators at Network Platforms, one of South Africa’s leading ISPs, have come up with a solution that gives users better bandwidth at no extra cost. As Network Platforms...

SA telco space impedes solution delivery

In the past, companies may only have had to ensure the intranet, Internet and e-mail were operational, but now they also have to cater for technologies such as virtual private networks (VPNs), cloud computing, the running of comprehensive business systems, desktop...