In the wake of Vodacom’s decision to close down its M-Pesa mobile money service in South Africa at the end of this month, a pioneer of mobile financial services for the mass market, Brian Richardson, CEO of Wizzit International, has
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Competition has broken out among telecommunications operators in South Africa as a result of an open-access policy intervention, being the prices which operators pay to access customers on other networks: the call termination rate. Prepaid mobile voice
Local mobile operators say they are not investigating network-level ad-blocking services, at least for now. About 20% of data traffic on a smartphone is intrusive advertising, according to a research note from Strand Consult. And in February
MTN South Africa will allow mobile virtual network operators to piggyback on its network, becoming the second mobile provider in South Africa after Cell C to offer such a platform
MTN South African has announced that it will spend R4bn more than previously budgeted for on its network in 2016, boosting its capex plan for the financial year to 31 December by 50% to R12bn
MTN South Africa has expressed concern about government’s plans for allocating new spectrum for 4G/LTE networks, saying the wrong policy risks undermining one of the few sectors in South Africa that is
Vodacom wants to work with one or more other major telecommunications operators in South Africa to deploy fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure to reduce costs and make the business case for
You’d think they are about to launch the next big thing in mobile broadband, the way South Africa’s mobile operators are going on about LTU-Unlicensed technology. Vodacom, MTN and Cell C have also clamoured for the headlines in recent days as
The news that Vodacom South Africa is planning to drop the M-Pesa mobile money transfer service has come as a surprise to many analysts considering the huge success it has seen in many
Vodacom shareholders have reason to be happy. On practically every measure, the full-year numbers published on Monday for its South African operation are probably the best in recent memory. Everything is pointing in the