Weekly IT News
QUADREM, the online trading hub for the mining industry, has promoted Brandon Spear from vice-president of Quadrem Africa to its senior vice-president of operations. Spear was a founder of Internet Solutions and will move to Dallas to oversee Quadrem’s global operations. The new vice-president of Quadrem Africa is Mike Kersten.
MTN students graduate in telecoms
NINETY students, 13 of them disabled, have graduated from MTN’s learnerships programme, achieving a national certificate for telecommunications technicians. Two MTN trainers also earned a national diploma in occupationally directed education, training and development practices.
Telkom to research rural communications
TELKOM’s Centre of Excellence at the Tshwane University of Technology has begun a research project to develop affordable wireless telecommunication systems to reach rural communities where customers are far apart.
UK’s Carphone Warehouse group invests in SA
UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS company The Carphone Warehouse has appointed South African Wynand Schutte as GM of The Phone House, a R200m contact centre set up in Cape Town to serve its UK clients.
Free iBurst internet for disadvantaged schools
WIRELESS broadband provider iBurst will give 16 schools high speed, wireless internet this year in its iRevolution initiative. The hardware will be free and iBurst will subsidise the monthly internet subscriptions.
IBM wins deal extension of big Golf Fields deal
GOLD Fields has lengthened a five-year, multimillion-dollar deal with IBM for an extra year, with IBM managing all Gold Fields’ IT systems in SA in partnership with network integrator Integr8 IT.
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