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No Vodacom, you cannot have it both ways Vodacom is starting to call LTE 4G, flying in the face of the company’s previous statements that only LTE Advanced qualifies as 4G

World record broadband speed of 10Gbps using copper Alcatel-Lucent sets new world record broadband speed of 10Gbps for transmission of data over traditional copper telephone lines

South African broadband prices low enough? The Broadband Commission has set a broadband price target of no more than 5% of GDP per capita by 2015 – this is how South Africa compares

The Ministry of Dysfunction How repeated bungled appointments to a ‘soft’ portfolio have cost this country hundreds of billions of rands

An inconvenient truth about high data roaming rates Why is Vodacom, MTN and Cell C charging foreigners over R100 per MB for mobile data?

Source: ISP Review

Digital TV delays - the Minister must explain says DA The DA Shadow Minister of Communications said that Dina Pule should explain a decision that will severely delay the roll-out of DTT in South Africa

Most negative technology news of 2012 Tech news isn’t all new product announcements and reviews; here are some of the less pleasant stories of 2012

Global telecoms and internet treaty leaves divided opinion An international telecommunications treaty signed by 89 countries out of a possible 144 will have little impact on how carriers operate or how consumers surf the web or make calls around the world

The controversial meeting of the ITU this past two weeks came to an end today and South Africa of course signed the stupid thing. :mad: Now the ITU isn't all bad, they do some good stuff, but this whole meeting has been fought with full force by several organizations because of the problems it...

LTE and 4G in SA LTE is strictly speaking not 4G, but it is nearly impossible to avoid the term with most vendors branding their products as 4G

Expensive cellular roaming in ITU sights Unified action by its members to reduce “bill shock” for consumers, ITU promises

We need more free (and paid) TV ICASA has tabled plans to license new operators to broadcast digital TV services

Digital TV in South Africa: more deadlines ICASA has stipulated coverage targets, with deadlines, for the roll-out of digital terrestrial television in South Africa

iPad 3 name change South Africa Core Group will be updating all its marketing material with the new model name

Please don’t mess this one up as well, DoC Another communications minister, another colloquium (but maybe it will be different this time around)

LTE labelled as "4G" and the iPad 3 If Apple says LTE is 4G, does that make it so?

South Africa not behind in spectrum issues says ICASA chair After a recent trip to Geneva to meet with the ITU, the ICASA chairperson believes that SA isn’t behind as far as spectrum assignment is concerned

LTE, WiMax and HSPA+ are not 4G technologies - it's official The International Telecommunication Union has now laid any speculation to rest about what they see as 4G

What is the definition of 4G? The ITU clarifies exactly how it defines 4G and it may not be what many people expect