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Mobile money platform M-Pesa has failed to live up to Vodacom’s expectations for the product in SA, Pieter Uys, the group’s CEO, has admitted. Vodacom has registered “more than” 100 000

On the surface, 14-year-old Luke Taylor seems like any other boy his age. He loves surfing and water sports, playing the guitar and spending time with friends. But this grade 9 pupil from the German

Vodacom expects to have as many as 25m of its group customers using data services in the next two years, from 9m now, as the mobile broadband boom continues. In the financial year to 31 March 2011, the group

Cuts in wholesale mobile call termination rates, the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks, knocked R1,5bn off Vodacom’s top line in the 12 months to 31 March 2011

Neotel is stepping up its focus on the retail consumer market with the launch on Monday of a new handset that, at first glance, looks remarkably like a mobile phone. The R399 device, made by China’s ZTE, uses Neotel’s

Vodacom has shrugged off the pressures of a maturing mobile market and falling wholesale call tariffs between networks to turn in a red-hot set of financial results in the 12 months to 31 March 2011, boosting

Pay-TV provider Walking on Water Television (WowTV) has finally received the funding it needs to get a multi-channel broadcasting service off the ground and will have a commercial product available

The economic crisis brought to light hidden challenges facing the global banking industry. Now a significant trend among local banks has emerged: high cost-to-income ratios. In light of this

Toshiba, theUS$70bn-revenue Japanese electronics giant, has always built robust Windows laptops. Its new ultra-portable, the Portégé R700-15X (an uninspired name if there ever was one), continues this