Vodacom has backed down over plans to charge customers for data rollover after a public outcry. In a statement on Wednesday, the operator said it will no longer charge for data rollover.
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The US government and Huawei Technologies are grappling for airtime in a war of words over network security at the phone industry’s biggest trade show.
Vodacom’s fees and the complex set of rules related to its implementation of Icasa’s data expiry regulations are hellishly confusing, are anti-consumer and ultimately represent an own goal by South Africa’s largest mobile operator.
Huge Group said on Tuesday that it has won an interdict in a legal dispute between two of its subsidiaries and Cell C, apparently preventing the mobile operator from terminating its services as planned at the end of this month.
Data-only network operator Rain said on Wednesday that it has become the first company in South Africa to launch a commercial 5G network.
King Goodwill Zwelithini is backing the launch of a new mobile virtual network operator in South Africa, which is expected to begin offering services by mid-2019.
Protest action hit the Cell C head office campus in Woodmead, Johannesburg on Tuesday as unionised workers picketed over bonuses.
ZTE went from one-foot-in-the-grave to 2019’s technology superstar. Despite a gain of more than 60% that’s pushed its shares well above analysts’ projections, some investors argue that rally still has legs.
Vodacom will comply with communications regulator Icasa’s new data expiry rules from this week, but the country’s largest mobile operator has said it will charge users to roll over their unused data.
Helios Towers wants to build a thousand telecommunication towers in South Africa in the next three years as it tries to capitalise on rapid growth in mobile services and shape up for an initial public offering.