Vodacom cuts internet bandwidth rates From January 2010 Vodacom Business customers will pay up to 50% less
for their international Internet connectivity (local internet access
portion included).
Steven Hayward, Executive Director of Vodacom Business South Africa
says this drastic price reduction in international bandwidth is made
possible by the increasing competition between undersea cable providers
which in turn creates a sustainable competitive international bandwidth
market in South Africa.
Vodacom Business has taken advantage of this changing landscape to
engage with multiple undersea cable providers to put together a blend
of robust, redundant international fibre internet access at vastly
reduced pricing - in some cases with a saving of up to 50% from
previous pricing.
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WWF proposal could halve power price hikes
The WWF has challenged Eskom’s application to NERSA on the grounds that an alternative and more sustainable build programme would cost considerably less than the one currently proposed by the power utility.
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Prestigious award for UCT project Professor Jean-Paul van Belle of Cape Town University’s Faculty of
Commerce has won an international IBM Faculty award for developing an
innovative toolkit to enable small businesses to break into e-commerce.
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Talk 11 languages on your phone At last, you won’t need to know even a single word of Tshivenda or
isiXhosa in order to communicate with South Africans who don’t speak
English.
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SA scientist lauded for polar work Professor Steven Chown of Stellenbosch University is the inaugural
recipient of the Martha T Muse prize for Science and Policy in
Antarctica.
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Afridoctor wins Nokia application contest A mobile phone application that's been called Africa's first mobile
health clinic walked away with the honours and more than R600 000 in
prize money in the Nokia Africa Calling all Innovators competition.
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SA's thin-film solar tech at commercial stage A public-private partnership between a South African university and
private investors is working on a plant to commercialise thin film
technology in the country, an official said on Monday.
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'Excellent' year for scientific research at CSIR A rabies treatment produced in tobacco leaves, bioceramic material for
bone replacement and biodiesel made from algae: these were just some the innovations
produced by the CSIR in the past year.
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SA's research supercomputer goes online South Africa's newest supercomputer, a Sun Microsystems hybrid, was
brought online in Cape Town earlier this month, providing the local and
regional research community with a powerful tool in their pursuit of
solutions to problems in the fields of climate change, energy security
and human health.
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