department of communications

Malicious tactics used to "tarnish the reputation" of Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams - Department of Communications The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has released a statement condemning recent reports regarding irregular management and tender hijacking at the South African Post...

Department of Communications working with TV manufacturers on digital migration The Department of Communications has met with the local television manufacturing industry on the mass production of Integrated Digital Television sets (IDTV) for the local retail market. This comes as the...

SA government wants “stronger hand” in Telkom The government doesn’t want to sell its stake in Telkom, the Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Service has said. In fact, it wants the opposite

SABC is ANC, Zuma mouthpiece: report Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi appointed Hlaudi Motsoeneng permanently as SABC COO because his appointment is “useful” for President Jacob Zuma, The Sunday Independent reported

Don’t fall for Icasa’s changing LLU story The local loop unbundling story in South Africa shows exactly why many people say the regulator is useless and toothless

No word yet on new SABC CEO, CFO The SABC has yet to shortlist candidates for its vacant CEO and CFO positions

Zuma taking SA back to apartheid telecoms ministry structure After 20 years of democracy Jacob Zuma has returned to the apartheid government’s communications and telecoms ministerial structure

Why Yunus Carrim is a great communications minister The Department of Communications has given something to South Africans which they have not seen often before – targets which were met

Blowing open R756 million “scam” did not save DoC spin doctor Former communications spin doctor Wisane Ngobeni loses whistle-blower protection bid in court despite successfully exposing possible R756 million advertising “scam”

Government’s plan to boost SA broadband Finance minister Pravin Gordhan delivered his budget speech 2014 today, in which broadband made a guest appearance

New termination rates – will you see lower prices? Operators are divided on whether consumers will see significant price reductions following lower call termination rates

Let’s get real about broadband plans New communications minister Yunus Carrim has done great things for the Department of Communications, but his remarks on broadband smack of political rhetoric

Broadband for SA discussed: 5Mbps, 100Mbps, 1Gbps targets The Department of Communications has tabled a draft national broadband policy at a workshop in Pretoria, with targets up for discussion

The department of “non-achievement” - aka DoC The Treasury’s latest budget figures show that the Department of Communications deserve its title of a useless department

DoC meets self-imposed deadlines New communications minister Yunus Carrim has made many promises, and the results are not what we have come to expect from the Department of Communications

This is how bad Dina Pule really was: DA The DA’s Marian Shinn highlights how Dina Pule mismanaged the Department of Communications

New communication minister’s deadlines: here they are New communications minister Yunus Carrim has unveiled a detailed list of projects and deadlines which they want to achieve over the next 8 months

Local Loop Unbundling draft regulations published ICASA publishes the draft Local Loop Unbundling regulations for public comments.

Be careful what you wish for Members of parliament recently lambasted ICASA for not forcing mobile operators to cut prices, but there is a flip side to that argument

Draft LLU regulations delay: the real reason The publication of the draft local loop unbundling regulations is delayed, but the reason may not be what you think