The second national operator (SNO) dismissed allegations this week that it is falling behind schedule. Although maintaining its tight-lipped approach, it said niche services will be available in "mid-2006" - which is about now, isn`t it?
Jumping the gun
On Monday, avid watchers of the future of broadband costs in SA were delighted to hear the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) had made a decision on the new regulations.
However, despite ITWeb`s attempts to squeeze the details of the new resolutions out of the authority, it seems to be stalling on an announcement, now promising it on Monday next week. Interestingly, one source at ICASA suggested the promulgation of the Electronic Communications Act might have a material effect on the new regulations. So have they been finalised, or not?
Fraud will find a way
Two of SA`s major banks said this week they had experienced a new kind of banking fraud. The attacks involved clients` money being unlawfully transferred to prepaid cellphone accounts.
One source at ICASA suggested the promulgation of the Electronic Communications Act might have a material effect on the new regulations. So have they been finalised, or not?
Dave Glazier, journalist, ITWeb
Absa said it recently encountered a case where multiple sets of R180 MTN prepaid cellphone vouchers were transferred to cellphone numbers from a customer account. The bank is conducting a full forensic investigation with SAPS.
Sentech pushes TV into digital age
Sentech this week outlined its firm intentions to begin migration to digital terrestrial television, and move away from the analogue system that`s been here for three decades. The state-owned company will invest about R1 billion in the migration, it says. It hopes that by the time the World Cup comes around in 2010, the whole of SA will be fully migrated.
Primedia buying Exactmobile?
Although impossible to confirm (via conventional means, at least), there is a great deal of speculation that wireless applications service provider Exactmobile is in the process of being sold to Primedia.
"It`s an open secret the transaction is going down, and many players in the wireless applications services market know this," says one source close to the matter.
Viable ADSL alternative?
A relatively small, but infinitely ambitious South African company, Goal Technology Solutions, has revealed that broadband over powerlines will be available in certain parts of Pretoria within the next month.
It plans to sell the service for a good deal less than a similar Telkom offering, and expand it to various parts of SA in what the company says will be a R500 million, five-year investment.
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