Africa is now the world’s second largest mobile market by connections after Asia and the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, according to the GSMA, and industry association. According to the new GSMA Africa Mobile Observatory 2011 report
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Though Vodacom’s interim results, announced on Monday, showed a strong improvement in dividend payments and headline earnings per share, at least one analyst is troubled by the lack of growth in voice revenue, despite a sharp increase in voice
MTN SA is running a pilot of its high-speed long-term evolution (LTE) network in Cape Town this week. The company has been testing LTE using approximately 100 towers in Gauteng since late August and has reallocated part of its 1,8GHz spectrum
Datatec, SA’s biggest listed technology group, said on Tuesday that its subsidiary, Westcon, had acquired Sentronics, a local value-added distributor of security systems. Datatec did not disclose the value of the deal. Westcon is Datatec’s biggest subsidiary
With just a week to go before Vox Telecom terminates its listing on the JSE, founder and CEO Doug Reed wants to return the company to its “entrepreneurial roots”, away from the public glare that comes with being a listed company. And he wants to get the company back
Absa, SA’s largest retail bank, is to roll out contactless payment systems by the end of this year. Supported at first by cards that are equipped to make payments by means of tapping them on a reader, these same readers will eventually be able to accept
Playlist Central is a new local music streaming website that launched on 1 November and, like similar international websites such as Grooveshark, offers access to thousands of songs, all in one place. But, like many of its international equivalents, it could soon find itself
Vodacom has declared an interim dividend of 260c/share, translating into an almost R3,9bn windfall for the company’s shareholders. The interim dividend has been hiked by 44,4%. The JSE-listed cellphone group announced the dividend alongside its interim
Andy Baker has become the third top executive at JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group Reunert to quit in as many months, following the departure of CEO Nick Wentzel in September and commercial director Gerrit Oosthuizen last month. Baker, who will
Defence company Denel appears keen to play down its association with the armaments industry and has started actively punting how it believes its research and development efforts are benefiting other industries, and even assisting SA’s ambitions to have a space