Cuts in wholesale mobile call termination rates, the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks, knocked R1,5bn off Vodacom’s top line in the 12 months to 31 March 2011

Neotel is stepping up its focus on the retail consumer market with the launch on Monday of a new handset that, at first glance, looks remarkably like a mobile phone. The R399 device, made by China’s ZTE, uses Neotel’s

Vodacom has shrugged off the pressures of a maturing mobile market and falling wholesale call tariffs between networks to turn in a red-hot set of financial results in the 12 months to 31 March 2011, boosting

It’s a bumper edition of the TalkCentral podcast this week as your hosts Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod are joined by new TechCentral senior journalist Craig Wilson. They discuss the controversy

Pay-TV provider Walking on Water Television (WowTV) has finally received the funding it needs to get a multi-channel broadcasting service off the ground and will have a commercial product available

The economic crisis brought to light hidden challenges facing the global banking industry. Now a significant trend among local banks has emerged: high cost-to-income ratios. In light of this

Toshiba, theUS$70bn-revenue Japanese electronics giant, has always built robust Windows laptops. Its new ultra-portable, the Portégé R700-15X (an uninspired name if there ever was one), continues this

“Renewable energy, as a reaction to peak oil and climate change, is probably the most important economic boom that will occur in our lifetimes.” This quote from Craig Shields prefaced a sales pitch for the Joule

Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, will introduce per-second billing for prepaid customers from 15 May. Until now, calls were billed per-minute. “All new prepaid customers will be billed on a

Cape Town start-up Yastic has taken SMS technology and combined it with online “penny auctions” to bring text-based bidding to SA. Founder and CEO Richard Craib says using SMS to submit bids for products