The battlefield is ready, the guns are out and SA’s mobile operators are shuffling troops into position for what could turn into a protracted war. The latest operator to fire a salvo into the field of battle is Telkom’s 8ta
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Telkom’s new mobile arm, 8ta, is upping the ante in SA’s increasingly competitive mobile market, launching “free” mobile YouTube streaming to BlackBerry devices and free and unlimited calls
Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Steven Ambrose and Simon Dingle. They discuss the Nokia E7 and the state of Symbian, Vodacom going red, Cell C, the iPad and 8ta, Android, and much more
“This is not an April fool’s joke. This is for real.” With those words, Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys took the wraps off Vodacom’s new red and white branding, bringing it in line with the corporate colours
Internet Solutions is betting big on telecommunications infrastructure, with plans to participate in a wireless spectrum auction later this year that could result in it building a national wireless broadband network
Wholesale call termination rates come down at midnight tonight, but consumers shouldn’t expect retail price cuts from the big mobile operators. Both Vodacom and MTN have confirmed to TechCentral
Telkom has lost its bid to charge other mobile operators a higher interconnection rate than it would have paid them, dealing a blow to its new mobile subsidiary, 8ta
Telkom’s mobile subsidiary, 8ta, has won the race with its bigger rivals to be the first to bring the Apple iPad to its network. The iPad arrived in selected SA stores last Friday, with people keenly
Consumers are likely to come to rely increasingly on wireless technologies for broadband Internet access because the country is not investing sufficiently quickly in fixed-line alternatives. That’s the view of MWeb Business
A dispute lodged by the UK’s Vodafone at the Advertising Standards Authority appears to have inadvertently provided insights into Vodacom’s plans to rebrand itself this year