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Cell C has relaunched Red Bull Mobile, its mobile partnership with energy-drinks company Red Bull, offering a new product plan aimed at the youth market through a dramatically improved footprint of retail stores. The partnership was signed three years ago, but Cell C chief commercial officer
Telecommunications companies will have more time to submit information about the high cost of communications, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa said on Wednesday. Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka said the broadband value chain study deadline had been extended until 29 July and the call
Newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim appears to be moving rapidly to deal with some of the longstanding problems afflicting the SABC. Carrim, with his deputy, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, met with the SABC’s board, senior management and trade unions on Wednesday. They
The Competition Tribunal on Wednesday appeared set to agree to the terms of a settlement reached between the Competition Commission and Telkom concerning anticompetitive abuses by the operator between 2005 and 2007. The settlement includes payment
The way Vodacom manages the handover of calls between its network and that of Cell C’s hasn’t changed for the past 12 years. The company made the comments in reaction to accusations levelled by Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig that Vodacom is partly at fault for recent service issues experienced by
From Wednesday until Friday this week, the Dome in Randburg, Johannesburg, will play host to Mediatech Africa, the biennial technology trade show that brings together consumers and companies involved in the live entertainment, audio visual and broadcasting arenas
Days after newly appointed Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko dug into his own pocket to buy up R1m of the telecommunications group’s shares, its chairman has now done likewise. Telkom revealed to shareholders in a statement issued through the JSE that Jabu Mabuza, who was
MultiChoice is moving to cement its position in South Africa’s pay-television industry, on Tuesday announcing that its SuperSport subsidiary plans to launch two new sports channels in high definition on the DStv platform. SuperSport 5HD and SuperSport 6HD will be introduced in 23 July, the company said in a statement
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has blamed the company’s bigger rival, Vodacom, for quality of service issues experienced by consumers. He says Vodacom is not living up to the terms of a national service agreement the two parties signed in 2012. He also pointed a finger of blame
Newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim is moving quickly to familiarise himself with the problems plaguing South Africa’s public broadcaster. The minister’s office said on Tuesday that both he and his deputy, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, will meet with the SABC on Wednesday
