As much as 75% of telecommunications company Broadlink’s network in Gauteng is down after the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) raided the offices of parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) Holdings and apparently seized or unplugged equipment. Icasa’s move on
This feels like déjà vu. A year ago, Taiwan’s HTC and Korea’s Samsung Electronics were locked in a battle over which had the best Android “superphone”. Both had compelling, almost equally matched products in the form of the One X (HTC) and the Galaxy S3 (Samsung). Samsung
Telkom is a shadow of the company it once was. As little as 10 years ago, it thoroughly dominated SA’s telecommunications landscape. Today, it’s not even among the top 40 companies listed on the JSE. Its market value has dwindled to such as extent that, at R7,8bn, it’s worth less than 5% of Vodacom, in which it once
Cell C has sidestepped a potential Competition Commission investigation after it revised its wholesale bulk SMS pricing rates to all wireless application service providers (Wasps), prompting the industry association, Waspa, to withdraw a member decision to lodge a complaint with the competition body
Troubled JSE-listed technology services company Gijima’s share price was hammered lower on Tuesday, falling by more than 50% in intraday trading, after it revealed it was being forced to do a huge rights offer to raise cash to stave off financial disaster. But interim
Vodacom has reduced the cost of its wholesale bulk SMS products by 20%, from 17,5c/message to 14c. The rate excludes VAT and there are various discounts available for large volume purchases. The move comes a week after Cell C announced its own reduction
Tired of hiring a plumber or electrician, only to discover they haven’t the first clue of what they’re doing? Johannesburg- and Cape Town-based South African start-up Ledula < http://ledula.com/> hopes to change that. Ledula is inviting consumers to sign up on
It looks likely that Internet users will have to tighten their belts from next year. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has raised the idea of introducing a tax on broadband use from 2014.
The minister has suggested that a rate of 50c/MB should apply, with a built-in escalation in the rate in subsequent tax years
This week Brett Haggard hosts Samantha Perry and Tristan Hall for a chatty episode of the ZA Tech Show. Among other things, they talk about the Google-sponsored television white-spaces trial, Vodacom’s new call rates, the PlayStation 4, Microsoft Outlook on Windows RT, and lots more
Bathed in celestial light, and with the wholesome aroma of carnival popcorn in its air, BioShock Infinite’s airborne city of Columbia is as far from the water-sodden Objectivist dystopia of BioShock in atmosphere as it is in geography. But under its turn-of-the-century fairground Americana, Columbia churns with currents
