Open Access Networks:A success story

 The idea behind Broadband is mainly to open doors for inclusive access, where anyone can play on a fair and non-discriminatory platform, while promoting and ensuring fair trade. Open Access Networks is one of the few community-driven success stories. An attempt to ‘level the playing field’ and stimulate competition as a means to promote greater […]

The future of MyWireless: 'No to one size fits all'

 Sentech ‘s Portfolio Manager for Broadband Products, Winston Smith, cheered the crowd as usual with his jokes. Sentech’s MyWireless portable broadband technology complies with international standards to provide a telecommunications platform for connecting to the Internet and other communications networks securely and at high speed. Regulated frequencies and a worldwide standard are used. By Sentech’s […]

Classified Advertising in South Africa

 Robert X Cringely is a journalist, author and online industry commentator that I have been reading since I first discovered him in Computing SA back in 1993-1995. Anyway, his insights are very accurate, and the trends he spots turn out to be important in most cases. This week, he wrote in his weekly column on […]

Digital Migration: 4 % broadband connectivity!

 This week, a new BMI-TechKnowledge report states that 5% broadband connectivity was just a dream. The report suggests that only 4% seem to be feasible for a population of 50 million people in 2010. Where did this digital migration emerge? In October 2005 Deputy Minister of Communications Roy Padayachie held bilateral talks during the International […]

How to generate your own Publicity

 I’ve had so many interviews since the release of my Parents Guide to MXit, I’ve not had enough time to notify people on my email list or around me to listen in as in the past. The person who taught me how to deal with the media, how to generate your own publicity, is Arthur […]