Tshwane upgrades free WiFi speeds

The City of Tshwane has upgraded the maximum speeds on its free WiFi network to 15mbps, Project Isizwe has confirmed. To date the average speed for users has been 7mbps. The network has grown to 633 sites over the past 18 months, resulting in economies of scale that...

Fibre unleashes limitless creativity

The introduction of fibre-optic connections to homes and businesses in South Africa isn’t a mere incremental enhancement in the quality of our Internet connections, says Saurabh Kumar, MD at In2IT Technologies South Africa. With speeds that are orders of magnitude...

Big Blue blows big data speeds

IBM says it has achieved a new technological advancement with a lab prototype that will help improve Internet speeds to between 200Gbps and 400Gbps at extremely low power. The speed boost is based on a device that can be used to improve transferring big data between...