FibreCo completes national fibre rollout

FibreCo Telecommunications has completed a fibre optic network interconnecting Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, East London and Cape Town, providing the shortest and fastest optical fibre connectivity between these cities. The achievement comes about two years after...

Alcatel-Lucent, YooMee roll out African LTE

Alcatel-Lucent will enable YooMee Africa, a high-speed Internet service provider in Cameroon, to expand into new African market by offering TDD LTE ultra-broadband wireless access. YooMee – previously known as 4G Africa – provides high-speed reliable...

Mitel acquires 100% of Aastra

Mitel Networks, a provider of cloud and premises-based unified communications software solutions, and enterprise communication company Aastra Technologies have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement unanimously approved by the boards of both companies, under...

Seacom expands with Cape Town PoP

Seacom has launched a point of presence (PoP) in Cape Town for customers wanting to access and terminate services in the city. The new Seacom PoP plays a vital role in linking Eastern and Western undersea cable systems and enabling diversity for Seacom customers on...

Vodacom strikes up deal with WirelessG

WirelessG has been appointed as the exclusive provider of WiFi data products to Vodacom, for purposes of Vodacom bundling G-Connect WiFi data solutions. Vodacom will offer these bundled products through its retail distribution network. The technical scope and...

Nashua stalwart Coutinho resigns

After more than 25 years at the company, Nashua MD David Coutinho has resigned to “pursue other interests”. Coutinho joined Nashua in the late 1980s as national sales manager under then-MD Jac Moolman. He later succeeded Chris Scoble as MD of the company. In a brief...