Gijima has appointed Eileen Wilton as its interim CEO. This comes after Jonas Bogoshi announced he would step down at the end of the year. Wilton will work alongside Bogoshi until the end of December. Bogoshi has led the company for the past five years. He announced his intention
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Nashua Mobile, the cellular service provider in the JSE-listed Reunert group, wants to grow its prepaid customer base substantially and, in his first media interview since taking the reins on 1 October, newly appointed CEO Mark Taylor has
Each year, tens of thousands of South Africans find themselves signed up for mobile subscription services that deduct funds from their airtime balances or add costs to their monthly bills without their knowledge. One way to limit the impact of this is to make the sign-up process more difficult, but to date only one
Outspoken AppChat founder John Holdsworth has challenged SA’s incumbent mobile operators to do away with peak and off-peak rates and adopt “pay-for-what-you-use” models. “Overage”, where operators charge higher out-of-bundle rates once contract users have exhausted their voice, SMS and data
Telkom and its mobile arm 8ta may be sitting in the pound seats when it comes to next-generation wireless broadband thanks to its access to a big chunk of valuable radio frequency spectrum — and the telecommunications operator has signalled it plans to take full advantage of it. Whereas all
In an interview with TechCentral, Steve Wozniak says Apple, the company he co-founded with Steve Jobs in 1976, should have taken a more open approach with its iOS operating system and should have developed two separate iPhones
In this special edition of TalkCentral’s podcast, TalkCentral, we bring you a special, half-hour interview with Apple co-founder and legendary computer industry figure Steve Wozniak. TalkCentral editor Duncan McLeod asked Wozniak
Vodacom has surprised the market by launching commercial fourth-generation (4G) services based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology. The service is available immediately in selected parts of Johannesburg, with other cities to follow in the “near future”, the operator says in a statement. The company’s
Within the space of a week, all of SA’s four cellular operators have outlined plans to build fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband networks based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology. But it’s more a marketing effort for now and consumers shouldn’t get too excited
Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) CEO Themba Dlamini has moved to explain the decision by the auditor-general once again to submit a qualified audit of the telecommunications and broadcasting regulator’s annual financial statements. The authority has asked for “condonation” from government in an