We have a large panel for this week’s episode of SA’s favourite technology podcast. Duncan, Jon, Brett, Ben, Toby and Simon discuss Rica, Telkom cable upgrades, the interconnection debate, the Amazon Kindle, Google Wave, and much more
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Cell C has proposed to parliament that mobile interconnection rates — the fees the operators charge to carry calls on…
Cellphone operator MTN joined its rival Vodacom on Wednesday in committing to a closed-door session with the national assembly’s communications…
Cellphone users should see the first cost cuts by the end of November, the communications department said on Sunday. Spokesman…
Newly appointed communications director-general Mamodupi Mohlala says government wants mobile operators to reduce prepaid tariffs by passing on a planned…
A flurry of initiatives aimed at achieving a reduction in mobile termination rates will provide interesting sidesdows, but beneath the politics of the moment, the real action remains an intimate dance between the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) and the mobile networks. The initial mobile termination rate, also known as interconnection rate, of 20c/minute was set between Vodacom and MTN on 8 August 1994. This was amended on 28 May 1999, shortly after it was announced by government that a third mobile cellular telecommunications licence would be issued.
A gathering of three forms the panel this week as Brett Haggard, Ben Kelly and Simon Dingle discuss, among other things, Halo 3: ODST, new iPods and pricing, interconnection rates, Twitter’s avatar evacuation and Facebook Lite
Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys said the cellular group was “not opposed” to lower interconnection rates provided they were set based…
The ZA Tech Show covers a remarkable variety of topics this week with regulars Brett Haggard, Toby Shapshak, Jon Tullett,…
AltX-listed Huge Group has hit back at recent claims that a dramatic reduction in mobile interconnection fees will destroy the…