Wholesale mobile call termination rates will not be cut on 1 July, as previously envisaged by the Independent Communications Authority…
With Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games has nailed the Western genre so perfectly in videogame format that no-one else should…
Icasa has issued a second invitation to apply for a potentially lucrative digital mobile television broadcasting licence. This follows its…
In an extraordinary admission to the telecommunications and broadcasting industries, outgoing Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) chairman Paris Mashile said on Thursday evening that the regulator had “failed” the industry, adding that he would take personal responsibility for its poor performance
DStv operator MultiChoice is upping the ante with its new rival On Digital Media (ODM) and its TopTV service. On Thursday, the incumbent satellite pay-TV operator introduced a cut-price high-definition personal video recorder (HD-PVR) decoder that it hopes will drive HD technology to a broader audience
The use of mobile Internet services in SA has “exploded”, though less than half of urban cellphone users who have…
It’s official. Apple is the world’s most valuable technology company. On Wednesday, its market capitalisation surpassed Microsoft’s for the first…
Algeria’s foreign minister on Wednesday ended speculation Wednesday that MTN might try to buy Djezzy, the local subsidiary of Egyptian…
“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand without even making a phone call. The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data – in some cases, more than R100 000/GB. And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized
Why do people fly all over the world? In many cases it’s simply not necessary. And with interesting new videoconferencing technologies being developed, long-haul travel may eventually become the exception in business rather than the rule. It always amazes me how journalist colleagues