In November, I argued that Telkom’s broadband digital subscriber line service had peaked (that was at the half-year mark). Since then, growth has slowed even further and the telecommunications giant is on a knife-edge of
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Telkom has revealed plans to re-farm half of its spectrum in the 1,8GHz band for 4G/LTE services as it bets on data rather than voice as the big growth driver in mobile services. The company’s CEO, Sipho Maseko
Vodacom and Cell C have been at each other’s throats again in front of the Advertising Standards Authority, this time over a claim by Cell C that it was the first to introduce Wi-Fi calling in South Africa. In this instance, the authority
Vodacom is working with a number of major jobs websites to zero-rate access for job seekers, the mobile operator said on Monday. The company has launched the NXL LVL (pronounced “next
Given the amount of capital South Africa’s big mobile operators are pouring into their networks – well over R20bn between them this year alone – one could be forgiven for thinking the industry isn’t facing the serious headwinds many are predicting in the
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
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