Prospective broadcaster Mobile TV will expand its trial network using Korea’s digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology, to the Western Cape and the Free State, founder Mothobi Mutloatse said on Wednesday. Mobile TV has already run a trial using
MTN South Africa lost subscribers in the first half of the year and has admitted that it was “slow to respond to aggressive price competition” in both voice and data and that this was partially responsible for the company’s underperformance. In the six months
MTN’s fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) mobile broadband offering has come out on top in a series of tests run by TechCentral in Johannesburg on Monday. It’s the second time that MTN has emerged with the fastest 4G network in TechCentral’s testing
In an unexpected move, Telkom has effectively cut the price of the wholesale broadband charges it levies on Internet service providers who sell broadband capacity using the company’s asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL) network
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has published its latest round of quality of service monitoring test reports for South Africa’s three largest mobile operators, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C, and found all but Vodacom wanting. The reports focus
The star of the compact action video camera market is undoubtedly GoPro and its Hero range, but competition is hotting up and Drift Innovation wants a piece of the action with its new HD Ghost, which offers a built-in display, remote control and rotating lens. The HD
Cell C’s newly appointed chief financial officer, Robert Pasley, wanted to be a university professor, lecturing in theoretical physics, but pragmatism led him into the corporate world of finance and strategy. Pasley completed a
An independent specialist will investigate a website tender worth more than R100m and awarded by the Free State government, civil rights organisation AfriForum said on Tuesday. “The exorbitant amounts alone are worrying, and the further one reads
Tom Manners joins Brett Haggard and Adam Oxford in a discussion that meanders between music; music and technology; and open-source hippies. Topics discussed include Spotify now having curated playlists, Samsung and BBM, the new DStv Explora, Asus
Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has halted trade in its shares in New York and Toronto after announcing on Monday morning that its board is forming a special committee to “explore strategic alternatives”, which could include a sale of the company
