Telkom plans to expand into a range of new value-added product areas in an effort to offset the declining margins in its traditional business of providing bandwidth and connectivity. At the same time, it is making progress with its plans to offer
Author: Craig Wilson
Local-loop unbundling, the regulatory intervention whereby third parties get access to Telkom’s physical infrastructure, is often regarded as the best solution for reducing broadband prices and growing penetration. But one Internet service provider has
A request from the Financial Services Board (FSB) has placed Rockland Investment Management, an investment firm into which Telkom’s retirement fund (TRF) put R60m, under provisional curatorship. The TRF invested about R60m with
3MFuture Africa, a Cape Town-based technology firm that has been embroiled in a patent battle with MTN and Standard Bank over its payment card security technology, has received a ruling in its favour from the patent court in Pretoria. 3MFuture says
Telkom has decided it will appeal against the judgment imposed on it earlier this month by the Competition Tribunal. The tribunal found Telkom guilty of anticompetitive behaviour and stifling opposition between 1999 and 2004 and fined the company R449m. Telkom announced its attention to appeal
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) has launched the Youth Technology Innovation Fund which is designed to create projects for the agency and foster interest in technology and innovation in the youth in SA. The fund is a new funding instrument introduced at the end of last year when a call for proposals
Cell C has announced that it is cutting call rates to a further 177 countries after introducing a 99c/minute rate to 50 countries in recent months. “We have spent a great deal of time negotiating better termination rates with our international partners. The termination rates, or rates charged by other operators to
While many emerging markets have seen sales of dual-Sim mobile phones flourishing, giving device manufacturers like China’s ZTE and Huawei the chance to gain a foothold with innovative new devices, the market for dual Sims in SA remains negligible
The process of awarding a R10bn contract by the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) to JSE- and Nasdaq-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies earlier this year was “illegal and invalid”, a high court judge has ruled. Judge Elias Matojane found that
Thanks to the iPod — and subsequently the iPhone and iPad — an entire industry has sprung up creating docks, headphones and other audio accessories designed to work with Apple devices. iHome is just one of the third parties making such devices, and its latest offering, the iW1, is a rechargeable speaker designed to work