Disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule’s boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa, diverted R6m of R15m in sponsorship funds provided by mobile operator MTN for 2012’s ICT Indaba, transferring the money irregularly into a bank account owned by his company, Khemano
Telkom plans to hand back spectrum in a wide range of radio frequencies as it migrates from legacy technologies to next-generation systems. It is in talks with telecommunications regulator Icasa about the plan, which is expected to take years to implement. The operator plans
South Africa’s online landscape is set for huge changes in coming months as new top-level domains, including three “dot-city” top-level domains, are opened for registration for the first time and as long-dormant domains are reintroduced
MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia has lashed out at telecommunications regulator Icasa, accusing it of behaving “irrationally” and threatening future investments in network infrastructure through its plan to cut wholesale mobile call termination rates from 40c/minute to 10c/minute
It’s been a bumper year in the smartphone sector, with Nokia alone announcing nine Lumia handsets, Huawei introducing the world’s slimmest handset, and Samsung debuting too many smartphones to count. There were many great devices that came to South Africa this year, including the
The decision five years ago to sell Telkom’s 50% stake in Vodacom is “recognised as one of the company’s biggest mistakes”, says chief strategy officer Miriam Altman. But Telkom can’t afford to dwell on the past and needs to focus on building its core fixed-line business and finding a solution to
Standard and promotional prepaid data tariffs across South Africa’s mobile networks show vast differences in the prices consumers can expect to pay. TechCentral has put together a table showing what the four mobile networks – Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom Mobile – offering on standard prepaid data
A new report by McKinsey & Company shows that use of the Internet in Africa could add US$300bn to the continent’s cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025. The report, “Lions go digital: The Internet’s transformative potential in Africa”, studies
The stage is set for a final showdown in the protracted war between broadcasters and set-top box manufacturers over the use of encryption based on conditional access (CA) in the set-top boxes that South African consumers will need to buy to continue receiving terrestrial television
Mobile penetration as measured by the number of active Sims in use in sub-Saharan Africa has reached 61% of the population. But this masks the reality that fewer than one in three people in the region actually owns a mobile phone. According to a new research report from
