The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has launched a smartphone application to help residents of the city report potholes and faulty traffic lights. The Find & Fix app forms part of the JRA’s turnaround strategy and focus on service delivery. “The organisation is
Altron appears to be firing on all cylinders. The technology group, which owns Altech, Bytes and Powertech, has reported a 49% improvement in normalised headline earnings per share on the back of a 12% improvement in revenue. It has hiked its dividend to 80c/share, from 60c in 2013. The strong performance was underpinned
Large South African technology distribution group MB Technologies (MBT) has entered into an agreement to purchase a majority stake in cloud computing specialist Cloud On Demand. The value of the deal has not been disclosed. The move forms part of MBT’s plan to
Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos sat down with TechCentral on Tuesday to explain why the company cut its prepaid price, on a promotional basis until the end of September, to 66c/minute. But he played down suggestions that South Africa’s mobile operators are engaged
Cell C on Tuesday announced new prepaid call tariff of just 66c/minute on per-second billing and also cut the price of three new contract plans to 79c/minute, all on per-second billing. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with the mobile operator’s chief
Third mobile operator Cell C intends investing R2,3bn in growing its national network in 2014, to address capacity problems and to cater for a fast expanding subscriber base. The operator said on Tuesday that it had 16,6m subscribers at the end of April, a sharp
Cell C grew its subscriber base in 2013 by 35%, ending the year with 13,6m customers, the mobile operator said at a media conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The unlisted company, which isn’t required to disclose its financial numbers, revealed more
Cell C has upped the ante in South Africa’s mobile price war. The mobile operator has slashed prepaid call rates to 66c/minute, from 99c/minute previously. The new 66c tariff excludes its Supacharge recharge benefits, which will continue to be available
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The “last mile” fixed-line infrastructure into people homes in South Africa is “awful” and is holding back competition in South Africa’s television broadcasting industry by preventing Internet protocol television and video-on-demand players from launching services
