Cabinet’s Telkom decision will cost jobs
The claim by the department of communications that it rejected the R3,3bn Telkom deal because it ran counter to its plan to “improve access to information and communications technology services” does...
View ArticleLatest drama at DOC no surprise
Communications department director-general Rosey Sekese has been placed on “special leave” by minister Dina Pule, apparently after having misled parliament’s portfolio committee on communications about...
View ArticleZuma must act against Pule
The Democratic Alliance reiterates its call for President Zuma to fire communications minister Dina Pule without any further delay. The latest revelations in the Sunday Times this weekend that Pule’s...
View ArticleWhat minister Carrim needs to do
There is a long list of issues newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim needs to address with urgency if South Africa is to become the information and communications technology (ICT) leader...
View ArticleDigital TV delays: who’s pulling the strings?
Several delays in the regulatory process necessary to roll out government’s subsidised television set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television indicate continuing indecision and possible...
View ArticleZuma emasculating SA’s ICT sector
The clock of South Africa’s progress towards a knowledge-based economy has been turned back by at least a decade through two recent presidential proclamations. This has negative implications for our...
View ArticleDigital TV migration in chaos
It was clear from the department of communications’ briefing to parliament on Tuesday that digital terrestrial television migration is a never-ending project with an undetermined cost to taxpayers
View ArticleDA seeks to unmask TV box producers
The Democratic Alliance has filed a Public Access to Information Act application with the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa for details of who has received orders
View ArticleMuthambi must go to save digital TV programme
President Jacob Zuma must remove communications minister Faith Muthambi from managing the broadcasting digital migration policy and its accompanying legislation and to restore these with
View ArticleWill Sona 2016 light the SA Connect fuse?
Government’s failure to get to grips with South Africa Connect, the nation’s ambitious broadband roll-out plan that promises to deliver high-speed broadband Internet connectivity everyone in South...
View ArticleMore questions than answers on SA Connect
Indications that national treasury is in discussion with JSE-listed Telkom and the department of telecommunications & postal services to formalise a “partnership” to manage the roll-out of South
View ArticleMystery surrounds China-SA ICT pact
I have submitted my fourth application under the Public Access to Information Act for clarity on the information and communications technology (ICT) pact signed last June with China. The latest follows...
View ArticleSA’s digital TV project needs a rethink
Government’s failed R8,5bn broadcast digital migration process must be stopped in its tracks and reappraised to determine a new path to free up analogue signals to deliver ubiquitous wireless broadband...
View ArticleSpectrum standoff must end
Government’s secret plans for a national wholesale wireless network, which will have exclusive access to high-demand spectrum, must be withdrawn from the white paper on information and communications...
View ArticlePolicy bungling keeps data costs high
The effects of perpetual policy bungling, which has become the hallmark of the ANC government’s communications ministries, will be laid bare during a two-day public hearing into the cost of...
View ArticleANC remarks threaten Internet freedom
State security minister David Mahlobo’s remarks at the recent justice, crime prevention and security cluster media briefing that the ANC-government is contemplating regulating South Africa’s social...
View ArticleWhite paper: Cwele moving with reckless haste
I have written to deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as leader of government business, requesting that a lawful consultation process, in terms of the Electronic Communications Act that...
View ArticleSet-top box move is ‘good news’
The Democratic Alliance welcomes the news that the procurement process for the government-sponsored set-top boxes is being reviewed because of an irregular procurement process and unaffordability of...
View ArticleSticky stuff hits the fan, but there’s upside
About a year ago, communications regulator Icasa took fright at the national integrated ICT policy white paper and, within months, gazetted an invitation to network operators to participate in an...
View ArticleSticky stuff hits the fan, but there’s upside
About a year ago, communications regulator Icasa took fright at the national integrated ICT policy white paper and, within months, gazetted an invitation to network operators to participate in an...
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