The average price for voice and data paid by Vodacom customers in South Africa fell by 17,6% and 15,4% in the past year, the telecommunications group said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The declines happened because “significantly more
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Vodacom added 1,6m active customers in the fourth quarter of 2016, taking its total to 65,2m, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Wednesday. In its latest quarterly filing, for the three months ended 31
Government’s national integrated ICT policy white paper, if implemented as it stands, will lead to the creation of an infrastructure monopoly that will ultimately harm both the industry and consumers. That’s the view of Dobek Pater
The CEO of Net1 UEPS Technologies said a failure to extend its contract to distribute South African welfare payments beyond the end of March would be a “national disaster”, and offered to sell the business to the government. While the South African Social
The minister of finance’s replying affidavit filed in court on Monday appears to comprehensively argue every point raised by the Oakbay group of companies and forcefully refutes the assertion that Pravin Gordhan
Blue Cellular, a mobile distribution specialist with almost R1bn/year in revenue, is “working towards” a JSE listing as it eyes expansion in the corporate sector and opportunities in delivering content to mobile users, its
Communications regulator Icasa has signalled its intention to review the contentious call termination regulations of 2014, raising the possibility of fresh legal action by the industry. In the past two reviews, Icasa has reduced
Three of South Africa’s biggest banks are considering bidding to distribute government welfare payments to more than 17m people as a contract with a unit of Net1 UEPS Technologies comes to an end after years of legal battles. The existing contract
A German consumer group has sued Facebook’s WhatsApp in a Berlin court over clauses that allow the messaging service to collect and transfer user data between the platforms. The suit is challenging the privacy terms WhatsApp
After two days of sharp declines in its share price, technology services group EOH on Friday issued a “voluntary announcement” on the JSE’s stock exchange news service punting its public sector business. EOH tumbled more