The great broadband price wars of 2011 are hotting up. Barely a week goes by without a mobile operator or Internet service provider announcing lower tariffs or a new special offer on bandwidth. Arguably, though, they’re just getting
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The international media is filled with tales of woe about BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM). The Canadian smartphone company’s share price has lost half its value since the beginning of the year. Yet BlackBerry is SA’s sexiest
After a week’s break, TalkCentral, TechCentral’s business technology podcast, is back with a bumper show and a special podcast. In this week’s episode, we talk about Vodacom’s network outage, 8ta’s broadband special
Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, last week introduced a mobile broadband special offer that deeply undercuts its parent’s own fixed-line broadband prices. It’s a bizarre situation that underscores Telkom’s lack of a coherent long-term
Telkom, SA’s incumbent fixed-line telecommunications operator, must face up to the fact that it has reached an inflection point. It ought to invest tens of billions of rand to take high-speed fibre-optics into millions of homes and businesses before someone else does
In the latest episode of Tech Talk, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod chats to Juanita Clark, CEO of the FTTH Council Africa, about the challenges facing telecommunications companies in building fibre networks in SA. Clark talks about the need to facilitate rights of way
In this week’s post-Youth Day show, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson discuss Telkom’s results presentation on Monday, looking at the ongoing troubles at Multi-Links in Nigeria and 8ta’s latest subscriber numbers. They also chat about IBM’s centenary, the
Last week’s purchase by Visa of Cape Town-based mobile payments company Fundamo in a US$110m all-cash deal demonstrates clearly how the race is on to provide electronic financial services using cellphones, especially in emerging markets
It’s a short, sharp, punchy show this week, with your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson tackling everything from Steve Jobs to Telkom’s upcoming results. Highlights this week’s podcast include a look at Visa’s US$110m acquisition
The keynote address by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco was distinctly underwhelming. Is the world’s most valuable technology company running short of groundbreaking new ideas?