Meeting a court-imposed deadline with just a day to spare, Icasa has published its final call termination rates for the period from October 2014 to 30 September 2017 – and South Africa’s big operators are likely to be pleased with the outcome
Here at TechCentral, we have long been fans of Windows Phone. We think it’s the perfect platform for new smartphone users or those people that want a no-fuss operating system. And Microsoft’s newest, the Nokia Lumia 530, is a great entry-level
The urgency and secrecy of the deal South Africa is looking to strike with Russia for the supply of up to eight nuclear power plants means “someone is up to no good”, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Monday. That someone, she suggested in her
M-Pesa has seen an impressive uptake for Vodacom in Tanzania, but the telecommunications operator has struggled to get a solid footing for the mobile money platform in its home market of South Africa. Part of the reason for success in Tanzania, where
A new website operated by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), launched a fortnight ago by trade and industry minister Rob Davies, is broken, the Democratic Alliance has said. DA MP and spokesman for trade and industry Geordin Hill-Lewis
If you’d told most people in 1994 that in 2014 there would be a website dedicated to watching other people play videogames, they would have laughed at you. And yet on Friday, Amazon concluded a deal to buy Twitch, an electronic sports broadcaster, for nearly
Brett Haggard is joined by Michelle Atagana for a chat about African tech, start-ups, video streaming and more. They talk about Social Media Week in Johannesburg, Node vs Vidi vs other streaming media services, vending machines
Should South Africa’s mobile operators extend their offerings beyond telecommunications and into a broad range of value-added services such as financial services, media and e-commerce, or should they be low-margin “dumb pipes” over
In The Equalizer, the life of a Russian mafia henchman is nasty, brutish, short, and often terminated at the sharp end of a gardening tool wielded by its 60-year old star, Denzel Washington. As a retired secret service operative who protects the helpless
Nearly three in four mobile phone users in South Africa will access the Internet using their devices by the end of 2018, according to new research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The consulting firm reckons that 72% of mobile phone users