Vodacom and MTN on Tuesday separately announced plans to deploy narrowband “Internet of things” networks in South Africa in 2017, with both companies planning to showcase the technology at an industry conference in Cape Town next
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The department of telecommunications & postal services’s new director-general, Robert Nkuna, is going to have no time to ease gently into his new office in Hatfield, Pretoria. Indeed, he’s going to have to hit the ground running. The former councillor at
The amount of time the average First National Bank customer spends in a branch will fall to 86 minutes in 2016, from 100 minutes in 2015, a decline of 14% year on year, FNB Business chief information officer Peter Alkema said
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Monday called on South Africa’s mobile operators to “embrace the open-access spirit” of government’s national integrated ICT policy white paper by launching “genuine wholesale service offerings”. This, the association said
Robert Nkuna is the new director-general of the department of telecommunications & postal services, replacing Rosey Sekese, who was “expelled” from her post after being suspended in 2015. Cabinet ratified the decision to appoint Nkuna, who is
MTN Group said on Wednesday that it has become the first mobile operator in the world to deploy and test an “open optical packet transport platform” known as Voyager, after joining the Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project earlier
The country’s largest Wi-Fi provider, AlwaysOn, now allows customers to convert airtime into Wi-Fi data for its relatively pervasive network. At the entry level, R15 converts to 150MB of AlwaysOn data, which is less than half
Telecommunications group MTN has a new chief financial officer. Ralph Mupita, the CEO of Old Mutual emerging markets, will take over as MTN’s CFO on 3 April 2017. Mupita’s appointment adds to a growing list of top executives
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
Rob Shuter, MTN’s incoming group president and CEO, will join the telecommunications operator earlier than previously expected. Shuter, who is serving notice at Vodafone, will join MTN on 13 March