Vodacom has fired the latest shot in the ongoing price war in the mobile industry. The operator is offering existing prepaid customers the option of getting 60 minutes of talk time if they recharge for R5. However, the latest offer is a promotion only and expires at the end of July. Also, the
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Vodacom’s long-running legal dispute with a fixer who recently won a case against it in a Democratic Republic of Congo court is still simmering. And accusations are being made of improper influence over the Congo’s judiciary. The Kinshasa Commercial Court ruled in January that Vodacom
Telkom is pushing up basic and broadband line rental fees as part of its annual tariff adjustments it files with its regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA. Monthly rental fees for its digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband products are being hiked to R165/month for
Cell C is continuing with its price-cutting crusade, reducing the cost of calls to 99c/minute on per-second billing to 27 more countries from Sunday, 1 July. “Some of these tariffs to additional countries will be on a promotional basis, but are expected to become permanent tariffs by the end of July, once approved
TechCentral and Nu Metro Home Entertainment are giving away five autographed copies of the DVD version of Material, the highly acclaimed SA film starring comedian Riaad Moosa. The DVDs are autographed by Moosa, who plays the lead character in the film – a young Muslim man
A David and Goliath-style statistics battle has broken out online, calling into question everything we thought we knew about streaming radio in SA. A technical specialist with a part-time blog has blown the lid off what appears to be the gross inflation of listenership
Altron Group has appointed Neil Kayton as the new CEO of its Powertech subsidiary following the resignation of Norbet Claussen from the position this month. Kayton was Powertech’s chief financial officer. The appointment is effective from 1 July. Kayton, a chartered accountant, joined
The constitutional court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal lodged by the Competition Commission and Tracetec against vehicle tracking companies Altech Netstar, Matrix Vehicle Tracking and Tracker. The applicants have been ordered to pay costs. In 2005, Tracetec lodged a complaint
The Web, with all its hazards, is the new playground for children, a Google SA official said on Wednesday. “Like in any playground, you don’t abandon your children, but supervise and check how they are playing there,” the search engine’s public manager, Fortune Sibanda, told a conference on child abuse in
Cable theft has once again disrupted Telkom services, this time in the Kyalami area north of Johannesburg. The company says services to thousands of mainly business customers have been disrupted as a result of thieves. The fixed-line operator says it is working to restore services to clients in the area