Shameel Joosub has been back at Vodacom — now as its group CEO — for only three weeks, but already he has slashed international call rates in reaction to a similar move by smaller rival Cell C, which is now headed by former Vodacom Group

Discovery Vitality, the rewards programme owned by Discovery Holdings, has signed a deal with SA’s third mobile operator, Cell C, that will see the two companies launching VitalityMobile, allowing Vitality members to call one another for free if both are using Cell C’s network. VitalityMobile will cost

Vodacom is considering whether or not it should conclude another black economic empowerment deal, says newly appointed group CEO Shameel Joosub. However, no decisions are imminent. Joosub says Vodacom wants “harmonisation” between requirements set out in the Electronic Communications Act

Vodacom has revealed that it will launch its fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband network in Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria later this year. These are the same cities where MTN said earlier this week it would launch 4G. Like MTN, Vodacom

Telkom said on Friday it would extend its limited trial of 20Mbit/s and 40Mbit/s fixed-line broadband to Internet service providers (ISPs) other than its own TelkomInternet. The expanded scope of the trial won’t only benefit consumers and ISPs, but is good for the operator itself because of the nature

The stretch of land around the confluence of the M1, N1 and N3 highways at Buccleuch, north of Johannesburg, is turning into something of a corporate information and communications technology hub. Just months after mobile operator Cell C

Telkom has agreed to allow rival Internet service providers to participate in trials to test its speedier broadband fixed-line network. This followed criticism from the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa), an industry body, in which it suggested that the operator’s decision to restrict the tests to its own

Behind the legal storm raging over the recent awarding of a R10bn SA Social Services Agency (Sassa) contract, a far greater prize is at stake: the chance to load microloan and insurance products on to the R105bn the government pays in social grants monthly. Net1 UEPS, the New York-listed parent

Rejoice, 2000AD fans! Dredd is just as tough and uncompromising as the character upon which it is based. It is a lean action movie with a mordant wit and an obvious love for its British comic-book inspiration. Alex Garland’s superb screenplay captures the spirit of the 2000AD comic in a film that plays like

Following the ANC’s fourth national policy conference in June, the ruling party has released a recommendations document, the communications section of which has failed to tackle many of the important issues that that were supposed to be on the agenda for discussion. One eye-catching suggestion the party