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Former iBurst CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who led the buy-out of mobile social network Mxit last year, says the acquisition was as much an accident as the success of the social network itself. Knott-Craig says he first took an interest in Mxit in February 2011 when he got wind of a fall-out between Mxit founder Herman
Nedbank, the financial services partner in Vodacom’s M-Pesa mobile payments initiative, says it is “disappointed” that the service hasn’t taken off as fast as it had hoped for but it remains committed to the venture and will introduce new products and streamlined services soon in an effort to
Government wants universal access to broadband in SA by 2030 and part of this requires connecting SA schools. The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, published late last week for comment, reexamines the controversial e-rate, in terms of which educational institutions benefit from
The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, published late last week in the Government Gazette, has proposed the creation of a Spectrum Management Agency, separate to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to manage scarce radio frequency spectrum
The best possible solutions needed to be explored for the implementation of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said in Johannesburg on Friday. “There should be no overburdening of poor people with added cost,” Motlanthe
Vodacom now has more than 50m customers across all of the African territories in which it operates. The cellular operator’s customer base increased by 29,2% in the first quarter of its 2013 financial year, ended 30 June 2012. But the latest numbers show growing pressure on revenue in
Blue Label Telecoms, the JSE-listed company that distributes and resells airtime and other prepaid services, turned in solid results in the six months to November 2011 when it revealed the numbers in February. But part of those results included a confidential income receipt in its mobile
First National Bank customers who are registered for the bank’s cellphone banking service can now check their balances and purchase airtime along with SMS, data and BlackBerry bundles using social media website Facebook. The service does not allow for payments to
Incredible Connection, one of the country’s largest IT retailers, is launching a string of small outlets in outlying towns and other remote areas of SA that it says will allow consumers in these areas to get access to a wide range of technology products while growing the company’s customer base
Statistics published on Wednesday show headline consumer price inflation slowed in June to 5,5%. But a detailed analysis of the data reveals that prices in some categories are soaring and in others, most notably telecommunications, they are falling. Although Stats SA doesn’t provide
