With a credit card, a broadband connection, some (usually) simple instructions, and using one or more of a selection of clever applications or browser plug-ins, South Africans can subscribe to US video streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu and
The user-pays principle to be implemented on Gauteng’s freeways was comparable to paying to use a toilet, transport minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday. “Those who use a facility, you pay R1 or R2. Those toilets need to be maintained. Would you pay [to use a] dirty toilet?” she asked
Eileen Wilton, Gijima’s long-serving interim CEO, has been named to the position on a permanent basis by the troubled IT company’s board of directors. Wilton, who previously held the position of chief information officer at both Old Mutual and Anglo American, was acting
Banking giant Absa is at an advanced stage of planning to deploy free public Wi-Fi to all of its approximately 800 branches across South Africa. The bank will also work with parent Barclays to extend the network to its branches across the rest of Africa. The idea is to encourage
Users of home-grown mobile messaging platform Mxit remain highly loyal to the platform, despite the fact that the service was recently supplanted by Facebook as the country’s biggest social network, according to what World Wide Worx and Fuseware are calling a “final analysis” of their “SA Social Media
Annual spending on IT in South Africa will increase by 6,3% in 2014, to reach US$14,6bn (about R146bn), according to research and advisory firm International Data Corp (IDC). Over the next five years, the biggest IT spenders will be consumers, financial services, government and the communications
Mobile termination rates, the fees South Africa’s operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks, have to come down, but the scale of the drop and the level of “asymmetry” favouring smaller operators proposed by telecommunications regulator Icasa are too substantial
Cell C has filed a complaint at the Competition Commission, accusing larger rivals MTN and Vodacom of anticompetitive behaviour. “The crux of the complaint relates to the manner in which the dominant incumbents discriminate between their on-net and off-net effective prices, which has a dramatic
South Africa has to choose between having many telecommunications operators or encouraging investment from existing players to drive down prices and increase adoption. That’s according to MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who supports the latter approach. Bulbulia made the comments at a consumer
With demand for mobile data expected to grow as much as a thousand times in the next 10 years, Telkom says it is turning to Wi-Fi and the fourth-generation (4G) LTE Advanced mobile broadband to meet demand while remaining affordable for consumers. Telkom Mobile