After more than a year of testing, MTN South Africa will on Saturday launch its fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) network on a commercial basis in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban. MTN confirmed on Friday that the network would go live on 1 December
JSE-listed computer assembler and technology distributor Mustek has sold its 41,8% stake in distributor Comztek to another JSE-listed IT company, Datatec, for R39,4m in cash and shares. Comztek’s only other major shareholder, its MD Paul Conradie – who also holds 41,8% of the equity
Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and David Greenway meet in the “fish bowl” for a discussion on everything from the new Asus Windows 8 devices to Sony’s 4K TV and from Black Friday and Cyber Monday to rumours that iTunes is coming to South Africa
I threw away a pair of Sony headphones a few weeks ago, not out of disgust or carelessness, but because after nearly 15 years of hard service they had finally stopped working. That, in a nutshell, is the Sony story. Since it was founded in 1946 – emerging literally out of the
Low download speeds and high costs are turning people away from fixed-line Internet connections, parliament’s communications portfolio committee heard on Thursday. Over the past three years, there had been a “dramatic” increase in the number of households opting to connect through
Absa is launching a new piece of hardware called the Pebble that can be used to accept payments from chip-and-pin or magnetic credit and debit cards using a mobile phone, tablet computer or PC. The retail-banking group has introduced the product, which is similar
Simfy Africa, the subscription-based Internet music streaming service, has expanded its catalogue to more then 20m songs, the company said on Thursday. The R60/month service has added several new catalogues, including from Paradise Entertainment
Nashua Communications MD Andy Openshaw has joined Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig in calling for a further substantial further reduction in wholesale mobile termination rates in 2013, when a three-year process of reducing the rates comes to an end
Cell C has cut the cost of cellular data access to 3c/MB as part of a new prepaid Internet promotion, the mobile network operator said on Thursday. The new promotion, which takes effect on 6 December and runs until 28 February
A majority of South African Internet users are young and black, two-thirds speak an African language at home, and four in 10 live on less than R1 500/month. These are some of the finding in The New Wave report, written by Indra de Lanerolle, a visiting research associate at the
