MTN is joining South Africa’s escalating prepaid price war, taking an axe to its One Rate plan, cutting prices from R1,75/minute to R1,20/minute, or 2c/second, on per-second billing to all networks day or night. The new tariff, which will
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Just hours after MTN announced it was slashing prepaid rates on its One Rate prepaid plan, Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, has joined the price-cutting frenzy with new rates that it claims undercut all of its rivals. The moves by the two operators
The Zik headphones from Parrot are unabashedly attention grabbing. Combining chrome, matt-black plastic and leather, they’re simply beautiful. Understated design, invisible touch controls, superb noise cancelling and a number of ingenious features make them highly covetable, even with
Eskom has been granted an 8%/year electricity tariff hike for the next five years, significantly below the 16% it was seeking, the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) said on Thursday. The power utility quickly spoke out against Nersa’s decision, saying the the approved tariff hike will
Government wants to begin taxing virtual goods sold online by foreign companies, including e-books and downloaded music. These companies should be required to register as value-added tax (VAT) vendors, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said in his national budget speech in parliament
Mobile operator Cell C is allegedly giving Blue Label Telecoms-owned wireless application service providers (Wasps) preferential rates and services when they use its network, a move that has angered rival service providers. BulkSMS MD Pieter Streicher says the
Parliament’s joint committee on ethics and members’ interests has launched a formal probe into allegations of a conflict of interest involving communications minister Dina Pule and last May’s ICT Indaba in Cape Town. The committee, which is chaired
When major corporate brands start bashing each other over the head in public, you know that commercial rivalry between them has reached an intense level. This is exactly what’s happening in South Africa’s mobile industry, where Vodacom, MTN and Cell C have taken to sniping at each other at every
It reads like a bad spy novel: a secret unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is accused of spending the last seven years covertly infiltrating – or hacking – over a hundred large US corporations and stealing terabytes of sensitive data from their computer systems. Unit 61398 of the
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has hinted that on-network calling plans such as the one recently launched by Vodacom could be anticompetitive and may require regulatory intervention. Big operators often take advantage of their