Asymmetry in wholesale mobile call termination rates distorts the market, undermines competition and harms consumers. That’s the view of MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who has strongly rejected arguments put forward by Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says

In the wake of another set of poor quarterly results tied to weak consumer demand for its new smartphones, BlackBerry on Monday announced that it was exploring “strategic options”, including the possibility of selling the business. But who would want to buy

The provincial government in Gauteng has outlined details of a R396m “e-learning solution” designed to replace the controversy-ridden R2,2bn Gauteng Online. It will involve the roll-out of 88 000 Android-powered tablet computers made by China’s

Prospective broadcaster Mobile TV will expand its trial network using Korea’s digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology, to the Western Cape and the Free State, founder Mothobi Mutloatse said on Wednesday. Mobile TV has already run a trial using

MTN South Africa lost subscribers in the first half of the year and has admitted that it was “slow to respond to aggressive price competition” in both voice and data and that this was partially responsible for the company’s underperformance. In the six months

MTN’s fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) mobile broadband offering has come out on top in a series of tests run by TechCentral in Johannesburg on Monday. It’s the second time that MTN has emerged with the fastest 4G network in TechCentral’s testing

In an unexpected move, Telkom has effectively cut the price of the wholesale broadband charges it levies on Internet service providers who sell broadband capacity using the company’s asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) network

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published its latest round of quality of service monitoring test reports for South Africa’s three largest mobile operators, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C, and found all but Vodacom wanting. The reports focus

The star of the compact action video camera market is undoubtedly GoPro and its Hero range, but competition is hotting up and Drift Innovation wants a piece of the action with its new HD Ghost, which offers a built-in display, remote control and rotating lens. The HD

Cell C’s newly appointed chief financial officer, Robert Pasley, wanted to be a university professor, lecturing in theoretical physics, but pragmatism led him into the corporate world of finance and strategy. Pasley completed a