Despite its precarious financial situation, South Africa’s fourth mobile operator, Telkom Mobile is in a “prime position” in wireless broadband compared to rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C thanks to a huge chunk of radio frequency spectrum it has access to that allows it to build a fast and reliable
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Will Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel pass regulatory muster? That’s the question on everyone’s lips now that the mobile operator has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks with a view to buying its smaller rival, which is majority controlled by India’s Tata Communications
Sentech has taken the wraps off its new free-to-air broadcasting platform, Freevision, a competitor to the recently announced OpenView HD that will be to be launched by e.tv sister company Platco Digital in mid-October. Freevision uses Intelsat’s IS-20 satellite – the same one
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed a confidential deal struck between the SABC and MultiChoice that prohibits the public broadcaster from offering any of its channels over a television platform that uses encryption technology. E.tv described the move as
South Africa’s online advertising industry can look forward to substantial growth in coming years thanks in part to cheaper smartphones and data. This is according to PwC’s latest annual “South African Entertainment and Media Outlook” report. Unsurprisingly
Telkom’s annual general meeting got off to a bang on Friday after controversial former chairman Jeff Molobela withdrew his bid to be re-elected as the director, accusing the company’s board of violating due process. The move comes after Telkom’s board took the unusual step of
Consumers are unlikely to feel the effects of Telkom’s latest wholesale price cuts because Internet service providers (ISPs) have already cut their prices in anticipation of the reductions, industry players have told TechCentral. Telkom Wholesale on Wednesday announced various
Tweeting has become a serious business, with financial spin-offs if done right, so it’s no wonder that researchers continue to seek out the “tweet spot” when it comes to using Twitter effectively. It appears that everyone wants a piece of the action, and some users go to extraordinary lengths to rack up a high
Screamer Telecommunications, which is accused using spectrum in the 2,6GHz band without a spectrum licence, has pleaded innocence, with its lawyers arguing on Wednesday that a contract between it and signal distribution company Sentech entitled it to use the spectrum in question and that the real question
Until now the largest social network in South Africa, Mxit, which claims to have 7,4m active monthly users, has been knocked from the top spot by Facebook, with an estimated 9,4m active users, a number the researchers say may actually be on the conservative side