RSAWeb’s latest datacenter upgrade phase has been completed, an additional 10MB/s increase of bandwidth and larger UPS power by General Electric to handle increased server load.
“As part of our continuous upgrade procedure due to ever increasing demand for more traffic and web hosting space, our policy is to be a few steps ahead of this [...]

Following Telkom’s June announcement that it will drop its ADSL pricing by 18% and 31% depending on the ADSL product, smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) say they will also bring ADSL prices down.
SAIX is a Telkom subsidiary that is the wholesale provider of raw connectivity to the Internet for southern African ISPs.
However, even with the [...]

A Cellphone, a Movie Lobby and a Message - New York Times
A Cellphone, a Movie Lobby and a Message
This summer, moviegoers walking through theater lobbies in three cities might have felt a sudden vibration in their cellphones, the work of a nearby Bluetooth promotional kiosk.
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Moviegoers can download cellphone screen “wallpaper” of Brad [...]

Study: Cost Not Only Open Source Driver
Study: Cost Not Only Open Source Driver
By Susan Kuchinskas
Price isn’t the driver of the decision to use open source software, according to a report by Evans Data.
The Santa Cruz, Calif.-based IT market research firm released Open Source Vision on Wednesday, a qualitative report focused on the business of open [...]

By Ana Monterio - Moneyweb
A number of studies show that South Africans are required to fork out more than their foreign counterparts to make telephone calls and surf the Internet. Government has reacted through reviewing its policy and the legislation governing the sector. Some changes, however, such as legalising carrying voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), [...]

Even Flow Trade, the company that bought you the first ever 2-in-1 VoIP/PSTN cordless Dualphone, recently launched the website www.eftrade.co.za to showcase Even Flows� full range of VoIP hardware solutions - an exciting step in the new arena of Voice over Internet Protocol in South Africa.
According to Even Flow managing member Adrian Bush �the website [...]

An online poll conducted on the South African MyADSL website, a site dedicated to educating the public about broadband services in South Africa, has concluded that 82% of consumers find the uptake of adsl broadband internet services ‘pathetic’.
Since 2003 only 67000 users have been added to the ADSL network, merely a drop in the ocean. [...]

Industry and pressure groups which recently took on Telkom’s pricey and limited ADSL service at an ICASA public hearing could force reduced pricing and better service, but the real cause of bandwidth woes remains in the form of the de facto Telkom monopoly, according to the Communications Users Association of South Africa’s Ray Webber.
“We hope [...]

Cellphone Numbers Overtake Land Lines
Cellphone Numbers Overtake Land Lines
By James S. Granelli, Times Staff Writer
Hold the phone.
The number of mobile-phone users in the U.S. surpassed the number of conventional land-based phone lines in the second half of 2004, the government said Friday.
By the end of the year, there were 181.1 million cellphone subscribers, compared with [...]

Telkom is currently testing various new ADSL �products and services� which they hope to launch in the next few weeks.
Telkom is improving in the area of ADSL speed and one such tentative step is the 1 Mbps ADSL service currently under testing. Xolisa Vapi, Senior Specialist in Media Relations at Telkom, stated that the 1 [...]