Communications minister Mondli Gungubele tasks SITA with rolling out a national broadband project worth R6 billion, in an effort to supplement SA Connect.
The new route provides landlocked countries with extra redundancy, resilience, connectivity to data centres and cloud.
Bayobab partners with Africa50 to develop Project East2West, a terrestrial fibre-optic cable network connecting East and West Africa.
Telecoms providers have invested in expanding their network infrastructure to underserved areas and are providing affordable data plans to their customers, says Matone Ditlhake, CEO of Corridor Africa Technologies.
Despite increasingly tough trading conditions, the company was able to deliver double-digit revenue growth.
The subsea cable operator confirms a cyber attack, saying a “small” group of its customers have been compromised.
Despite reduced economic activity in SA, the telephony group’s fintech businesses record 17% growth in Q1 2023.
The data centres will be established across South Africa, as part of Sentech’s multi-dimensional objective to provide telecommunications services.
CipherWave Networks and Afrihost reach an agreement where the latter will acquire a majority stake in Home-Connect.
The local satellite aims to enhance the country’s technology sovereignty and self-reliance, says Sentech COO Tebogo Leshope.
The telco enters the mobile game armed with a new 4G network, offering high-definition voice calls, data, SMS and national 4G coverage.