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LTE: The Best Solution for SME’s

LTE is a fast-growing GSM-based broadband technology aimed at the consumer and small business market, offering incredible data speeds at a fraction of the cost of fibre optics and traditional wireless broadband solutions. In addition to a great data solution, LTE is also a reliable VoIP connectivity, offering reasonably low-latency, making it possible to terminate…

How To Test The Quality Of Your Internet

Internet speed has been the deciding factor for many consumers and businesses as the deciding factor for whether they have a good quality internet connection, however, speed is not everything and there are numerous other factors that determine whether an internet connection is quality or not. These factors are: latency, ping, jitter, packet loss. Latency…

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The biggest datacentre in Africa being built by Teraco

Reports started in early 2015 regarding the expansion of privately owned data centre infrastructure provider Teraco’s Johannesburg data centre with its expected completion set for early 2017 and latest reports by tech news giant MyBroadband has new news that its completion could be set for end 2016. The company raised R400m from Barclays Africa in…

Telkom’s Defense Against Increased Cable Theft

The popular business technology news site MyBroadband recently released an article stating the increase in sophistication of cable thieves in South Africa that has seen Telkom experience over 6,000 incidents of theft across its copper network in the last year. According to the article, criminals have been targeting Telkom manholes armed with heavy-duty vehicles that…

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Internet In South Africa May Be Set For A Boost

According to reports by the News24 network and MyBroadband.co.za two of the leading broadband providers, Telkom and MTN have signed an agreement on Monday 18th April 2016 to build a new submarine cable system that will stretch 12 000km along the eastern coastline of Africa towards Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan. The cable also known as…