If I told you online shopping is the next big thing to hit South Africa, you might think I was living in 1995. So-called experts will tell you big brands like Amazon and Kalahari have the market sewn up. They have the scale, the supply chains and the deep pockets to dominate the market completely
The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the “worst-performing entity” that reports to the department of communications, plans to spend R1 408/employee on a Christmas function this year, Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn
Telkom’s residential and business customers can now log service faults and track their progress to resolution using a new application designed for Apple’s iPad and for Android devices. The app, which is available in Apple’s App Store and in Google’s Play store, allows users to find the exact location
MTN and Pick n Pay are poised to launch a mobile bank. Called Tyme, which stands for “take your money everywhere”, the venture will piggyback on the banking licence held by Bank of Athens. Tyme hopes to make mobile money transfers and mobile banking commonplace in South Africa, where consumers
MTN South Africa has undergone a big restructuring. It’s folded its MTN Business subsidiary into its bigger mobile unit so that it is a now division rather than a separate legal entity. The move is meant to ensure that MTN’s corporate customers have one
Japanese electronics giant Sony has launched its new flagship television set in South Africa. And it’s a steal at just R279 000! The main selling point of the new 84-inch TV is its resolution – at 3 840×2 160 pixels, it’s four times the resolution of the 1080p
Open-access fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure provider Link Africa, formerly known as i3 Africa, has revealed that it expects to begin rolling out high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections starting in 2013. The company, which has bought
US automotive giant Ford is introducing its Sync technology, offering an advanced voice-recognition system, into the South African market. From next year, Sync, built by Microsoft, will be available in all new Fords sold in the country, with the exception of the entry-level Figo range
Although the African telecommunications industry has enjoyed significant growth in the past decade, with operators that capitalised on it generally mostly healthy returns on their investments, there is still the opportunity for far more growth, particularly for those who know where
A planned fifth undersea fibre-optic cable for Kenya will double the East African nation’s Internet capacity to more than 15Tbit/s from its current capacity of 8,6Tbit/s. However, it appears unlikely the new capacity will prompt the rapid price reductions many
