This week, we introduce a shorter, sharper and much punchier podcast in TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson have come up with a show that we hope you’ll find really entertaining. There is a bunch of new things we’re
Year: 2012
When the group-buying market took off in South Africa, entrepreneurs Luke Jedeikin and his partner Mikael Hanan, decided they should look to make their fortunes elsewhere and their start-up, Citymob, started in March 2011, moved from pushing digital discount vouchers to selling carefully
The divide between emerging and developed markets in terms of smartphone penetration is set to grow wider, new research suggests. Telecommunications equipment company Ericsson expects that by 2018, almost all handsets in Western Europe and North America will be smartphones
Vodacom has launched commercial fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) services in parts of Durban and intends to extend the network to Cape Town before the end of the year. The operator has already switched on 4G/LTE, which offers signficiantly improved connection speeds, in parts of
Attila Vitai, the newly appointed MD of Telkom’s mobile division, has arguably one of the toughest jobs in South Africa’s telecommunications industry. It’s his task to turn the country’s fourth mobile entrant into a viable and, eventually, a profitable enterprise in what has become a highly competitive
Submarine telecommunications cable developer eFive Telecoms says its US$280m SAEx system, for which construction should start in 2014, will provide international capacity to a range of coastal South African towns and cities at speeds of up to 24Tbit/s
If I told you online shopping is the next big thing to hit South Africa, you might think I was living in 1995. So-called experts will tell you big brands like Amazon and Kalahari have the market sewn up. They have the scale, the supply chains and the deep pockets to dominate the market completely
The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the “worst-performing entity” that reports to the department of communications, plans to spend R1 408/employee on a Christmas function this year, Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn
Telkom’s residential and business customers can now log service faults and track their progress to resolution using a new application designed for Apple’s iPad and for Android devices. The app, which is available in Apple’s App Store and in Google’s Play store, allows users to find the exact location
MTN and Pick n Pay are poised to launch a mobile bank. Called Tyme, which stands for “take your money everywhere”, the venture will piggyback on the banking licence held by Bank of Athens. Tyme hopes to make mobile money transfers and mobile banking commonplace in South Africa, where consumers