Many point-of-sale terminals in circulation in South Africa support only 2G and 3G networks and must be replaced.
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The high price of smartphones in Africa, often the result of high taxes, is undermining the continent’s digitisation.
MTN South Africa has blasted rival Telkom’s call for a delay to Icasa’s next broadband spectrum auction.
South Africa’s telecommunications operators expand on their plans for frequencies in the digital dividend bands.
Many South African technology companies are allowing their employees to work from home and encouraging them to make use of technology to avoid face-to-face meetings with colleagues and clients.
Batteries that don’t have time to recover fully and criminals taking advantage of power cuts are two of the factors making life difficult for South Africa’s mobile networks as rolling blackouts continue into a sixth day.
The regulator’s complaints and compliance committee has fined MTN South Africa R5-million – R2-million of which is suspended for three years – for contravening regulations when it hiked the tariffs on one of its data plans.
Eskom’s rolling blackouts are placing severe strain on mobile network operators trying to keep base stations up and running.
MTN South Africa has implemented new data rollover, transfer and out-of-bundle features to comply with Icasa’s new data regulations and has said it won’t charge users for data rollover.
It’s now well known that MTN South Africa patented a “please call me”-type service in the early 2000s, beating rival Vodacom to the punch.