At Maziv, we understand the importance of embracing digital transformation to drive superior customer experience and service excellence. As one of South Africa's leading telecommunications groups, we have made significant investments in this direction, inspired by our...
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Enhancing SA university connectivity for research: a mission by DFA, CSIR, and SANReN
South Africa’s leading wholesale, open-access fibre-infrastructure provider, Dark Fibre Africa (DFA), has partnered with Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and South African National Research Network (SANReN) to drive significant advancements in...
Fibre connectivity is the key to unlocking SA’s potential
Fibre connectivity is solving some of South Africa’s most pressing challenges, playing a significant part in empowering and uplifting communities, and contributing toward building a successful economy. With the right support and participation from both the...
Driving equality in the ICT sector
The dire shortage of specific industry skills and the growing demand for these talents mean that the industry has the opportunity to meet the capacity gap by encouraging more women to join the ICT sector. This is the view of Portia Thokoane, Chief Human Capital...
Deploying the digital future
The Rapid Deployment Policy on offer from the government has the potential to transform South Africa and the industry The Rapid Deployment Policy has a very clear purpose and intent. Its goal is to facilitate the rapid deployment of facilities and networks that will...
The shared benefits of connectivity mean a shared effort of providing it
As the need for connectivity becomes increasingly fundamental to our way of life, the need to deliver quality and cost-efficient connectivity and services by private communication services providers is of paramount importance. However, the cost of delivering quality...
A story of a woman in ICT
Growing up in Thabakgone GaMamabolo in Limpopo I never conceived that I would find myself working as a fibre optic technician for one of South Africa’s largest ICT infrastructure companies. As a woman, I am one of very few. Despite all that is being done to increase...
Fast-evolving home-based connectivity needs pose a challenge to the telecommunications industry
With many more South Africans working remotely, homes have become offices from where we could be doing anything from attending a client meeting or live streaming a presentation or talk to completing tasks in the cloud, making progress on strategic projects, or...
No flattening of the fibre demand curve
The scale at which COVID-19 has altered the world was unfathomable just a few months ago: something in the region of a quarter of the world’s population is under lockdown or shelter-at-home orders, air travel is virtually shut down, countries have closed borders, and...