“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand without even making a phone call. The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data – in some cases, more than R100 000/GB. And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized
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Vodacom is ditching its 24,9% stake in iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) Holdings to increase its chances of being awarded radio frequency spectrum that will allow it to build a fourth-generation (4G) cellphone network. The mobile operator confirmed last week that it would sell WBS so as to be eligible
The winter solstice. 21 June. That’s the likely date on which Telkom will announce long-anticipated upgrades to its broadband network…
MTN is getting social. The Johannesburg-headquartered cellular telecommunications group has signed an agreement with US-based social networking service Facebook. The…
Get ready to hear a lot of hype about the 900MHz radio frequency spectrum band in the months ahead as…
Mobile operator MTN SA will introduce what it describes as an “uncapped” 3G broadband product from 1 June. The service…
Lars Reichelt, CEO of mobile operator Cell C, has criticised the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) for not consulting…
MTN and Cell C have both confirmed they are importing micro Sim cards to cater for devices like Apple’s new…
The 3G version of Apple’s iPad tablet computer went on sale in the US this week and, like the Wi-Fi-only…
Egyptian telecommunications group Orascom Telecom said on Thursday that its CEO is seeking a meeting with Algeria’s prime minister after …