Having kick-started the only real price war in the South African cellular market, the “little network that could”, Cell C, is in a tough place. Alan Knott-Craig’s Hail Mary pass to capture his stated intention of 25% of the market appears to be working – at MTN’s expense – for the time being. The recent results from
Times Media Group (formerly Avusa) has acquired a 32,3% stake in Ghana’s Multimedia Group for R144m. Multimedia Group is a radio and television business and is the largest independent media company in Ghana, the JSE-listed Times Media, which owns the Sunday Times and Business Day newspapers
Telkom is removing the enormous pink ball from Johannesburg’s landmark Hillbrow Tower. Although the telecommunications operator is only obliged to remove the fibreglass structure at the end of the year, it’s doing so now before Johannesburg’s summer thunderstorms render the removal
Telecommunications regulator Icasa has introduced tougher penalties in new regulations dealing with “type approvals” of communications equipment, making provision for fines of up to R1m and prison sentences of six months for infringers. Under the new type approval
The top end of the smartphone market is well served with Lumia devices and the bottom end has the sub-R2 000 Lumia 520. But the midrange hasn’t had an update since 2012’s 620. Enter the Lumia 625, which, despite its similar name, is a wholly different device
MTN South Africa on Monday issued an ambiguous statement saying it was cutting the cost of international telephone calls to “as little as 75c/minute” to a number of markets across Africa, including Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland. It’s been widely reported
The labour court has instructed the SABC to allow former editor Montlenyane Diphoko to return to work, his attorney said on Monday. “The court has upheld the findings of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) last year, and instructed the SABC to allow my client
Transaction values processed through Nedbank’s App Suite have exceeded R23bn in the little over 12 months since the transactional banking application was released. The number was disclosed by Nedbank chief information officer Fred Swanepoel in a statement on Monday in which the bank announced
Those eager to hear the outcome of the drawn-out saga of Screamer Telecommunications’ allegedly unlawful deal with Sentech to use a portion of the state-owned signal distributor’s spectrum will have to wait until at least November. Screamer appeared before the Independent
The smartphone market could be reaching another tipping point. Several developments in recent weeks point to potentially big shifts in the fortunes of the major players. Let’s start with Apple, which on Tuesday took the wraps off not one but two new iPhones, a top-end model, the 5s, and, perhaps more significantly, a
