There will be a billion new mobile subscribers by 2020, according to a new research report published on Monday. The GSMA, an industry body representing the world’s mobile operators, said on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Spain that the number
The power grid will be severely constrained for the rest of the week, parastatal Eskom said on Tuesday. “It is possible that we may go through today [Tuesday] without implementing any load shedding,” spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said. “If any of our
On this week’s ZA Tech Show, the game boys (Deon Du Plessis and Shaun Behnken) join Brett Haggard for a chat about mobile phones, search engines, jetpacks, drones and games (of course). The topics (in order of appearance) on the podcast are the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6
The market has failed to deliver broadband to all South Africans, hence government’s decision to intervene, naming Telkom as the…
Consumers stand to be the biggest losers during South Africa’s migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT). As the country races to meet an international deadline to switch off analogue TV by 2015, major decisions are being made that will raise costs for consumers and
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has called on telecommunications operators to work more closely together to reduce costs in an environment where input costs continue to rise but where prices for telecoms services continue to decline. Joosub says one
Broadband Infraco appears to be in limbo. After national treasury made no mention of the state-owned telecommunications company in its latest budget vote allocations, an Infraco spokesman has downplayed industry talk that it will soon be put up for sale. “Broadband
MultiChoice has added three new channels to its recently launched DStv Now application for smart devices. The channels are ShortsTV,…
Is it true spies hack technology companies? Can governments really listen to your phone calls? Should we care? The latest details of NSA and GCHQ intelligence agency activities to come from files leaked by Edward Snowden are of the apparently massive theft of mobile
The Asus UX305FA is the first Zenbook to feature Intel’s new Core M technology. As a result, Asus clearly breaks tradition with previous Zenbook models, which were all equipped with much faster Intel Core i processors. On the upside, the new machine is a lot cheaper than
