Cellphone network operator MTN SA says it has spent nearly R450m on network investments directly related to the 2010 soccer World Cup, including the roll-out of dedicated infrastructure at all the stadiums to be used during the tournament
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The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has set out the details of the highly anticipated auction of spectrum to…
Wholesale mobile call termination rates will not be cut on 1 July, as previously envisaged by the Independent Communications Authority…
With Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games has nailed the Western genre so perfectly in videogame format that no-one else should…
Icasa has issued a second invitation to apply for a potentially lucrative digital mobile television broadcasting licence. This follows its…
In an extraordinary admission to the telecommunications and broadcasting industries, outgoing Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) chairman Paris Mashile said on Thursday evening that the regulator had “failed” the industry, adding that he would take personal responsibility for its poor performance
It’s official. Apple is the world’s most valuable technology company. On Wednesday, its market capitalisation surpassed Microsoft’s for the first…
“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand without even making a phone call. The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data – in some cases, more than R100 000/GB. And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized
Why do people fly all over the world? In many cases it’s simply not necessary. And with interesting new videoconferencing technologies being developed, long-haul travel may eventually become the exception in business rather than the rule. It always amazes me how journalist colleagues
An easy-to-use, simple and global micropayments system for publishers — it’s long been the missing link in the digital content game, especially for smaller publishers. Now, three SA Web entrepreneurs hope to plug the gap. Saul Kropman, Toby Kurien and Jason Kramer, who head up start-up technology business JTS Technology Concepts, have developed a micropayments system called Cred that they say will make it easy for publishers