Neotel has launched a new product called NeoSmart that allows its fixed-wireless customers to make and receive calls using Neotel’s existing products from a dual-Sim mobile phone. This means customers can take
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Cellphone group MTN says it has lifted its subscriber market share in South Africa substantially despite tougher competition in the local market. In notes accompanying its 2012 financial results published on Wednesday, the group says its market share in South Africa stood at 37,7% at the end
The Cape Chamber of Commerce has lashed out at the department of communications (DOC), saying business is becoming “increasingly frustrated” by its “lack of governance and delivery”. It says allegations of misconduct within the DOC are compounding concerns b business about
A total of 38 websites, and not only one, form part of the Free State’s multi-year integrated website project, the provincial government said on Tuesday. “In total, 38 reengineered websites form part of this project, including the provincial government’s utilisation of social media platforms such as
Banking group Absa has launched its first mobile bank branch on a trial basis in the rural town of Idutywa in the Eastern Cape, where the bank’s bricks-and-mortar branch was destroyed in a fire. The “Branch on the move” concept is designed to simulate
Copper theft sank to its lowest level since 2009 in January, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Monday. Sacci’s Copper Theft Barometer was R11,1m in January this year compared to R12,4m in December, Sacci said in a statement. “This is the lowest
Outrage is growing over reports that the Free State government spent R140m on developing a new, integrated website to serve citizens of the South African province. According to a report in the Sowetan, the provincial government paid R140m for the site’s development. Yet a technical interrogatio
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is facing a legal challenge from GauTV, a prospective broadcaster it denied an operating licence in 2012. Mzansi Community Satellite, trading as
The Free State provincial government spent R140m on its website, it was reported on Monday. Free State director-general Elzabe Rockman signed a three-year contract to redesign the website in 2011, the Sowetan newspaper reported. She had reportedly disputed
Draft legislation could pave the way for the state to e-mail road traffic fines to motorists, it was reported on Monday. Beeld reported that this had emerged from amendments to the Law on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic (Aarto) published in the Government Gazette in