South African businesses are less prepared for a cyberattack than a year ago. According to the 2024 Cybersecurity Readiness Index by Cisco, only 5% of South African companies have ranked at the ‘Mature’ level of readiness, which is required to be resilient against modern cybersecurity risks – sown by 19% year-on-year. The Index looks at a company’s readiness across five […]

Telkom is investigating the cause of a massive service interruption affecting the company’s internet and phone call services on Monday. The network is now restored and Telkom is giving its customers a 1GB data token to apologise for the inconvenience. From 13:40 on Monday afternoon, a huge volume of network issue reports at Telkom had been submitted on the network […]

South African fibre network operators have implemented forced speed upgrades and price increases because their costs have increased substantially in recent years. This was the feedback from industry heavyweights during a ZANOG@iWeek panel discussion on the future of fibre earlier this year. Forced speed upgrades are a way to offer subscribers some value in exchange for a price increase rather than simply […]