Mobile money platform M-Pesa has failed to live up to Vodacom’s expectations for the product in SA, Pieter Uys, the group’s CEO, has admitted. Vodacom has registered “more than” 100 000
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Vodacom expects to have as many as 25m of its group customers using data services in the next two years, from 9m now, as the mobile broadband boom continues. In the financial year to 31 March 2011, the group
Cuts in wholesale mobile call termination rates, the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks, knocked R1,5bn off Vodacom’s top line in the 12 months to 31 March 2011
Neotel is stepping up its focus on the retail consumer market with the launch on Monday of a new handset that, at first glance, looks remarkably like a mobile phone. The R399 device, made by China’s ZTE, uses Neotel’s
Vodacom has shrugged off the pressures of a maturing mobile market and falling wholesale call tariffs between networks to turn in a red-hot set of financial results in the 12 months to 31 March 2011, boosting
Pay-TV provider Walking on Water Television (WowTV) has finally received the funding it needs to get a multi-channel broadcasting service off the ground and will have a commercial product available
Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, will introduce per-second billing for prepaid customers from 15 May. Until now, calls were billed per-minute. “All new prepaid customers will be billed on a
The technology behind the controversial traffic demerit project, also called the administrative adjudication of road traffic offences (Aarto) system, is ready to go, says Tebogo Mphuti, CEO of Tasima
The full Android Market, including paid-for applications, is coming to SA and 98 other markets around the world, Google announced at its I/O conference in the US last night. The market will be available in 26 African countries
Open-source software, where software code is open to inspection by anyone, is inherently more secure than proprietary software developed by companies like Microsoft. That’s the view of Nathaniel Borenstein