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Vodacom will begin informing customers via SMS when they’re abroad about the roaming rates that are applicable in the foreign countries they travel into. The service, known as “roaming tariff information” SMS is designed to help consumers avoid roaming bill shock, the company says. The service will notify customers
Africa, the birthplace of the human species, has long been a magnet for archaeologists. Now SA wants to draw leading astrophysicists to the continent as well with the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an instrument that would be able to look back to the infancy of the universe
Vodacom has secured a licence from the Financial Services Board to begin selling insurance products directly to its customers as it seeks to broaden its portfolio and expand its revenue streams in a maturing mobile market. There are few details available for now, but TechCentral has established that the cellular network
Next year will bring significant consolidation among SA’s Internet service providers as they battle a difficult, deflationary environment. That’s the view of Altech Technology Concepts CEO Wayne de Nogreba, who says the industry is in a “race to the bottom” as bandwidth prices plummet and
In its framework for the licensing of high demand spectrum, published last week, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) says it intends to reserve a portion of the 2,6GHz band for a “managed spectrum park”. The idea, it seems, is to make spectrum
Pay-TV operator MultiChoice has opened its Internet-based video-on-demand (VOD) service, BoxOffice Online, to beta testers. It follows the July launch of the satellite-based version of BoxOffice, which allows DStv users to rent movies on their personal video recorders. Consumers interested in
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) hopes SA operators will emulate the Russian model of infrastructure sharing for next-generation mobile broadband networks based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology, TechCentral has learnt. LTE, which will pave the way to
Communications minister Dina Pule on Wednesday issued draft policy directions to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) in an effort to find ways of exploiting the “digital dividend” bands that will be opened up when SA moves from analogue to digital
The government will soldier on with a multibillion-rand Karoo telescope that will allow astronomers to see billions of years back in time, regardless of what happens with a bid to build the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Deputy science & technology minister Derek Hanekom says the R1,1bn MeerKAT
Vodacom has launched premium applications in its App Store, costing between R5 and R50 each. The cellular operator launched the store in September. More than 5 000 premium apps have been added to the Vodacom App Store, the company says in a statement. It says
