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Telkom is claiming to be the first operator in South Africa to launch uncapped high-speed wireless broadband based on LTE. To be launched on 10 June as part of a promotional offer, packages will be capped at 150 users per base station to ensure a good
MTN has cut the price of its popular low-cost Steppa 2 smartphone by 20%, from R999 to R799, a day after rival Vodacom launched its new Smart 6 smartphone, which retails for R799. The operators are keen to get everyone off older feature phones
HTC’s One M8, the Taiwanese company’s flagship phone for 2014, was – and still is – is a great smartphone. In fact, TechCentral chose it as the best high-end smartphone of last year, ahead of Apple’s iPhone 6 and LG’s G3. And we weren’t the
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has sounded a warning over Cell C’s debts and its ability to repay them, and has said this could trigger a downgrade in the mobile operator’s long-term rating of B-. Such a downgrade, if it were to happen, could affect Cell C’s
Fast-growing telecommunications infrastructure company Dark Fibre Africa, which until now has focused mainly on deploying national and metropolitan fibre links, has announced it intends
Microsoft will launch Windows 10 on 29 July, the company’s executive vice-president of operating systems, Terry Myerson, said in a blog post on Monday. The operating system, which will be
It’s been a year since President Jacob Zuma shocked South Africa’s communications technology industry by announced he was splitting the department of communications in two, creating a new department of communications and, reversing the trend of
New pay-television licensee Siyaya TV has rubbished claims by SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng that the public broadcaster has secured the rights to broadcast Bafana Bafana soccer
MTN has rubbished talk that any of the company’s clients have been disconnected by disgruntled workers, describing such suggestions as a “classic disinformation campaign”. Reports of alleged disconnections started surfacing early on Thursday
Altron-owned cellular service provider Altech Autopage has moved to allay customer concerns about plans to sell the business’s subscriber base to South Africa’s mobile operators. In a statement on Thursday, Autopage MD Boyd Chislett said the company’s
