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Duwane Peters, Marketing Manager for Cool Ideas
COOL IDEAS

Award-winning South African ISP shares recipe for success

Cool Ideas scoops Best Fibre Award for third consecutive year, and Fixed LTE is soon launching in South Africa

  • Special Reports
3 min read
Street poles with Vumacam’s signature grey ‘domes’. When they are linked by fibre and have cameras installed, it means that the streets beneath them are under surveillance
CONGESTION

Vumacam’s eye in the sky solution

Smart camera networks help to create a smarter, safer cities

  • Derek Davey
6 min read
Critics say Telkom is attempting to slow the rolling-out of high-speed broadband.
DATA

Telkom turns to mobile and fibre as landline business takes knock

​Telkom is steering its business towards "new revenue streams", such as mobile, data and the internet

  • Lameez Omarjee
3 min read
FIBRE OPTIC NETWORK

Fibre optic turf war pushes speeds up and prices down

While the giant telecommunications companies fiddled, smaller firms started laying internet cables and consumers are ultimately winning.

  • Lloyd Gedye
7 min read
ADSL

Fibrehoods vs Futurehoods: A battle won by consumers

As fibre-to-the-home rolls out in earnest across suburban South Africa, the army with the most weapons is being left behind on the field of battle.

  • Arthur Goldstruck
6 min read
Celebrity chef David Chang
BROADBAND

High-tech and lowlife: How extortion is hobbling broadband roll-out

We need to start seeing broadband as a vital service and treating those who threaten it with severity, writes Alistair Fairweather.

  • Alistair Fairweather
3 min read
FIBRE OPTIC NETWORK

Seacom completes 17 000km under-sea cable

Seacom on Thursday announced that its 17 000km submarine fibre-optic cable has been completed and commissioned.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CELLPHONE OPERATORS

MTN, Neotel to build 5 000km fibre-optic network

MTN and Neotel will build a national long-distance fibre-optic network for between R1,7-billion and R2-billion, it was reported on Thursday.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read