Afrihost, which earlier this year introduced aggressively priced mobile broadband offerings in partnership with network operator MTN, has effectively cut the price of mobile data in half until the end of February next year. The move appears to be a reaction to MWeb’s
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Internet service provider MWeb has taken Telkom to court, demanding that a 6c/minute “transit” charge for calls carried from the telecommunications operator’s fixed-line network and onto its mobile network is in breach of an interconnection agreement signed between the parties
MWeb now has direct access to Cell C’s mobile data network after the two signed an agreement in terms of which the MultiChoice-owned Internet service provider will have access to an access point name (APN) supplied by the mobile operator. The move, which
Two men lost a battle against Internet service provider MWeb after claiming the company was misleading customers with its “uncapped ADSL” offering, the Advertising Standards Authority said this week. According to the ASA’s ruling on the matter
MWeb has moved to appoint a new head of its business division. Debbie Pretorius has been named as the new GM for MWeb Business, the Internet service provider said on Wednesday. Pretorius replaces Andre Joubert, who reportedly left in August to join telecommunications
Consumers are unlikely to feel the effects of Telkom’s latest wholesale price cuts because Internet service providers (ISPs) have already cut their prices in anticipation of the reductions, industry players have told TechCentral. Telkom Wholesale on Wednesday announced various
DStv Online CEO John Kotsaftis, 41, is the quintessential geek. He tells me as much when I sit down to interview him in one of the boardrooms at DStv Online’s offices in Randburg, Johannesburg. His love of technology started with a friend’s gaming console. “He got an Atari
Israeli satellite and fibre telecommunications provider Gilat is stepping up its focus on fibre-optic infrastructure in Africa and plans to establish a Johannesburg office early next year. The company continues to increase the scope and scale of its operations on the continent through
Media and technology group Naspers’s share price touched fresh record highs on Wednesday after China’s largest Internet company, Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, beat analysts’ expectations in the first quarter. According to Bloomberg, net income of just over 4 billion
Six months after Sprint announced it was in talks to sell 70% of its equity to Japan’s SoftBank for US$20bn, Dish Network Corp, a US direct-to-home satellite pay-TV operator with 14m subscribers, has put in a bid of $25,5bn to buy the wireless communications firm. It’s a move