The latest financial results from JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms, for the year ended May 2014, provide insight into just how challenging telecommunications operator MTN is finding the intensified levels of competition in South Africa’s mobile market
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WumDrop, a Cape Town start-up, has designs on becoming the Uber of courier services in South Africa, and it has set it sights on the broader African continent, too. Uber is the on-demand taxi service that uses a smartphone app to bring drivers and passengers together. Co-founder of WumDrop
A way to address the alleged irregular appointment of SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was agreed upon on Wednesday, the public protector and communications minister said. “They acknowledged the fact that the matter under investigation is also under judicial scrutiny in the Western Cape division
JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has reported a 6% improvement in headline earnings to R451m in the year to May 2014. This came on the back of an improvement in gross profit margins from 6,7% to almost 7% and a slight uptick in revenue to R19,4bn. Losses at its Mexican business
South Africa’s first Bitcoin vending machine has been installed, giving users the ability to get Bitcoin in exchange for rand. The difference between a Bitcoin ATM and a Bitcoin vending machine is that the former dispenses cash for Bitcoins
Wikipedia is often seen as a great equaliser. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people collaborate on a seemingly endless range of topics by writing, editing and discussing articles, and uploading images and video content. But it’s starting to look like global coverage on Wikipedia is far
MTN South Africa has secured a tender from City Power, Johannesburg’s electricity supply agency, to turn lampposts into cellular base stations in a move the operator believes will go a long way to solving coverage challenges not
Communications regulator Icasa has settled on the model it intends using to calculate call termination rates as the court-imposed deadline nears for it to draw up new regulations that govern the rates, which operators charge each
The latest audio codec for cellular networks, introduced in 1998, is AMR, which continues to be developed. It offers a better quality audio call than enhanced full-rate and uses the same amount of bandwidth. AMR encodes narrowband signals in the 200Hz to
Durban-based technology services company Adapt IT has grown headline earnings per share by 55% to 34,55c in its 2014 financial year, which ended in June. That was on the back of a 34% rise in revenue to R406,3m and a 69% improvement in operating profit to R49,6m. On the