Reunert-owned Nashua Mobile is disabling international roaming, calling and call-forwarding functionality on all of its customers’ Sim cards in a bid to prevent fraudsters using stolen Sims to run up bills. The company
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The Zimbabwean telecommunications industry is set to enjoy another growth spurt following a trebling in growth between 2009 and mid-2010. This is according to consulting firm Frost & Sullivan
BWired, a joint venture between the City of Johannesburg and Ericsson, has completed a 300km core, 1,2Tbit/s fibre-optic broadband network at a cost of R250m. The network stretches from the south of Soweto to Midrand
Telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), and members of the SA Police Service on Friday raided the head office and two satellite offices of controversial Internet service provider
SA Airways is the only airline that can test the feasibility of using cellphones on its flights, the SA Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Friday. “The CAA wishes to clarify that despite reports from some media
MTN Group has lifted its subscriber base by 4% in the quarter ended 31 March. It now has 147,2m customers on its networks in 21 countries in the Middle East and Africa. At the end of December 2010, the figure was 141,6m
In more than a quarter of SA homes, at least one person has access to the Internet. That’s a finding of Statistics SA’s latest annual general household survey. According to StatsSA, 26,8% of homes had at least one
Fledgling pay-TV provider TopTV will not launch high-definition channels or a personal video recorder (PVR) decoder this year, pushing out their launch to the second quarter of 2012. The broadcaster, owned by
First National Bank’s Internet service provider, FNB Connect, will offer its subscribers free access to YouTube for two months, effective until the end of June, in a sign of increasing competition in the broadband market
MTN SA has begun work on a pilot network using long-term evolution, the next generation mobile broadband technology, and will have 100 base stations active in Gauteng by the end of the year. At the same time, the company is