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Absa has finally taken the wraps off its application for smartphones and tablets, becoming the last of South Africa’s big four banks to launch a transactional banking app. Absa’s banking application supports Apple’s iPhone and iPad as well as devices running the Android operating system. It allows users to make payments
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has given the go-ahead to Sentech, the state-owned company responsible for building the country’s digital television broadcasting network, to run a pilot this year of a new technology “profile”, called DVB-T2-Lite, for delivering TV broadcasts
In a move that is likely to be widely welcomed in the telecommunications industry, state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech has decided to return its full allocation of radio frequency spectrum in the 2,6GHz and 3,5GHz bands, says CEO Setumo Mohapi. The 2,6GHz band, in particular
Sentech made no request to the department of communications to manage the control system for digital terrestrial television and is fine with a court decision that the system be managed by free-to-air broadcasters instead. In May 2012, communications minister Dina Pule instructed Sentech to
iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) can afford to pay the money the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) claims it owes in unpaid spectrum licence fees. That’s the word from WBS CEO Thami Mtshali, who said the company is not under any sort
Cell C has again chopped mobile data prices, this time on a three-month promotional basis, cutting the cost of 500MB of monthly data to R39/month for contract customers. The move, the operator says, is meant to send a “clear message” to its customers and its competitors. “Cell C has always provided customers
First National Bank launched a cellphone-based instant money transfer service between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Tuesday. “We have done extensive research into the cross-border remittance market and devised a service that is readily accessible to the people who need it most,” said Yolande van Wyk, head of digital
iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) is by no means the biggest offender when it comes to unpaid spectrum licence fees, information in TechCentral’s possession shows. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is owed a total of R372m in unpaid spectrum fees from a variety
Telecommunications industry investor and former Dimension Data director Richard Came, who has played a leading role in building alternative fibre-optic infrastructure in South Africa in recent years, has bought a minority stake in last-mile fibre player Conduct Telecommunications. Came, who also has a shareholding
There’s more bad news for Telkom shareholders this week. The partially privatised JSE-listed telecommunications company warned on Monday that it expects its headline earnings per share to be at least 20% lower than the 324,7c it reported a year ago. Telkom is under
