After Checkers pioneered the introduction of Black Friday - the US shopping day after Thanksgiving – in South Africa in 2014, we’ve seen other retailers steadily adopt the sales “event”. This year, however, practically every retail chain in the country
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Telkom says its mobile business has been boosted by the launch in July of its FreeMe bundles built around data (not voice minutes) which largely upended the market. It achieved profitability in that unit for the first time
It is borderline criminal for mobile operators to be charging as much as R500/MB for data use while roaming in certain countries. It’s 2016! The overarching problem with roaming, of course, is that there
Popular (mis)conception has it that Cell C, whose resurgence began under Alan Knott-Craig in 2012 and continues under Jose Dos Santos, has been rapidly stealing market share from larger rivals Vodacom and
First National Bank has continued its push to get more of its customers using its app as their primary channel for transacting, payments and banking. In previous years, it slowly dangled the proverbial carrot to incentivise
What more is there to say about MTN? It’s been an especially horrific 12 months for the company (and shareholders). But the group is sitting with a very large problem (to be fair, it has many others too): it is
Telkom’s FreeMe looks to be the most competitive data-focused offering in the market, especially when put next to similar packages on the three larger mobile operators. When the new packages from South Africa’s “challenger” network are
Let’s accept the point of departure: mobile contract packages are broken. There are too many bundled voice minutes hardly anyone depletes and an infinitely higher number of completely useless SMSes. Data bundles are almost an after-thought
Discovery has announced a third change to the way it allocates points to members of its Vitality Active Rewards programme inside its first year. The programme, first piloted in the UK before being launched in South Africa last September, is simple
It’s rare: regulation which actually yields a positive result for both sides of the market it intends to “manage”. Sure, the move by regulator, Icasa, to start a licensing process for precious mobile spectrum is