Myles Illidge

Johannesburg

Author at MyBroadband

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South African data centre industry evolving

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo says the data centre industry is evolving as players face the need for sustainability, reducing their environmental impact, and meeting the demands of artificial intelligence (AI). At the same time, they must also manage costs, efficiency, and resilience, ensure connectivity and network performance, and evolve data centre cooling technologies.
The industry kissing dirty energy goodbye in South Africa

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Data centre operators in South Africa are reducing their reliance on coal-fired power from Eskom as they move towards clean energy goals, with Teraco aiming to achieve 100% of its energy consumption from clean sources by 2035. Teraco told MyBroadband that the company plans to ditch dirty power, such as that from coal-fired power stations, but it will remain an Eskom customer as it requires grid connections for wheeling purposes.
South Africa’s new bank and its fight against Capitec

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Old Mutual’s OM Bank will launch later this year and target Capitec’s largely uncontested target market. Old Mutual has already begun competing with Capitec in the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market. OM Bank is set to launch publicly in the fourth quarter of 2025, following a soft launch with select customers in the second and third quarters of the year. While it hasn’t named its main rival directly, it hasn’t hidden its ambitions to go after Capitec’s client base.
Proposed Netflix levy to save the SABC

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Sportscape Media founder and director Gary Rathbone supports implementing a levy on international streaming services to help fund the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Speaking to Cape Talk, Rathbone explained that players like MultiChoice, the SABC, and E-tv are restricted in their ability to operate in South Africa.
Most reliable hard drives revealed

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Years-long testing by BackBlaze has shown that Western Digital’s high-capacity hard disk drives (HDDs) are generally the most dependable for enterprise-level data storage, with three of the company’s HDDs making it into the top three most reliable drives. While HDDs are an older technology that solid-state drives (SSDs) are increasingly replacing, HDDs are cheaper and still very efficient for storing large amounts of data. SSDs offer higher reading and writing speeds.
Takealot crushes Amazon, Temu, and Shein

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Google Search Trends data for the past year suggest that Takealot’s dominance in South Africa is not seriously threatened by players like Amazon, Temu, and Shein. Online searches for “Amazon” briefly surpassed searches for “Takealot” in May 2024. However, that was the month in which Amazon.co.za launched, and “Amazon” searches quickly plummeted thereafter. MyBroadband compared Google Trends data on online searches for Amazon, Shein, Takealot, and Temu between April 2024 and April 2025.
Plan to revive money pit power stations in Pretoria

1 week ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

City of Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya delivered her first State of the City Address on Thursday, 10 April 2025, revealing the metro’s plans to revive the decommissioned Pretoria West and Rooiwal power stations. Moya said the plan is to convert the Pretoria West power station to a waste-to-energy plant and to resuscitate the Rooiwal power station.
Why South Africans can’t drive

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

It is estimated that 50% of driving licences in South Africa are obtained fraudulently, meaning one in every two drivers in the country has not passed a driving test. Speaking to Newzroom Afrika, Masterdrive CEO Eugene Herbert said corruption within Driving Licence Testing Centres could significantly contribute to the carnage on South Africa’s roads.
Most affordable virtual private server packages in South Africa

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Modern businesses must have an online presence through a website or an app, and virtual private server (VPS) products offer an affordable means of hosting such platforms. VPSes are hosting environments where customers share hardware but are isolated from one another. Each customer gets specific CPU, RAM, storage, and bandwidth allocations, almost as if they have their own server. However, they can be substantially more affordable than dedicated server products.
South Africa’s only driving licence card printer has broken down again

2 weeks ago | mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge

Alderman JP Smith, City of Cape Town MMC for safety and security, says the city’s Driving Licence Testing Centres (DLTCs) received nearly 60,000 driver’s licence card applications in 2025, but not one has been issued. Moreover, it could be some time before new driving licence cards are issued in South Africa, as the last time the Driving Licence Card Account (DLCA) experienced such a backlog, the machine had to be sent to Germany for repairs.