All four South African mobile network operators have agreed to ensure full network coverage for voice and data services on the Gautrain rapid rail system by July 2014. Gauteng MEC for roads and transport Ismail Vadi met recently with representatives of the networks and officials from the Gautrain
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The iPhone 5 will be launched in South Africa on 14 December. Apple announced on Monday that the highly coveted smartphone will be launched in more than 50 additional countries over the next 10 days. “Apple today announced that the iPhone 5 will be available in South Korea
Reductions in the fees that mobile operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks have not hurt them financially, as they claimed they would. Nor have they led to higher retail prices, lower investments or retrenchments in the sector. These are some of the
Nashua Communications MD Andy Openshaw has joined Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig in calling for a further substantial further reduction in wholesale mobile termination rates in 2013, when a three-year process of reducing the rates comes to an end
Cell C has cut the cost of cellular data access to 3c/MB as part of a new prepaid Internet promotion, the mobile network operator said on Thursday. The new promotion, which takes effect on 6 December and runs until 28 February
Cell C has switched on its first two base stations using next-generation 4G/LTE wireless broadband technology, the company has confirmed.
The two sites are located in Sandton, north of Johannesburg. “We are in the process of optimising the sites,” says Cell C spokesman Karin
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications will probe telecommunications costs in South Africa, starting at a two-day public hearing at the end of this month. The two-day session, which will take place on 29 and 30 November, will form the initial phase of
Former Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt has taken the top job at Georgia’s largest telecommunications operator, MagtiCom. Reichelt, who left South Africa’s third mobile operator in July 2011, is now based in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. MagtiCom has about 2m
Vodacom has grown its number of fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) base stations to 200 in Johannesburg, from 70 when it launched commercial services last month, and has begun testing the technology in Cape Town. The
Mobile operator Cell C will launch fourth-generation (4G) mobile services based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology in Cape Town and Durban as well as other top coastal holiday resorts in December. This will be done on a trial basis ahead of a commercial launch, which