Mobile phone towers have become big business across Africa as rising costs mean it is less appealing for network operators to manage and maintain the infrastructure. A trend to outsourcing them, which started a few years ago, is gaining rapid momentum
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Vodacom has launched a new product designed to attract new customers and reward existing customers’ loyalty. Aimed at the prepaid market and clearly meant to drive up usage, Vodacom’s Use & Get
Telkom surprised the telecommunications industry last week, announcing sweeping price cuts to its wholesale broadband services that should lead to real reductions in retail fixed-line Internet prices. The cuts – which are said to go well beyond what
Nkosana Makate, the man who is suing telecommunications giant Vodacom for the “please call me” invention is upbeat that his constitutional court bid might bear fruit. After the high court in
South Africa has not been particularly keen on the mobile virtual network operator model. It’s lagged most developed and some developing markets in launching mobile brands on the back of cellular
They make millions every year. But Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko and Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub have agreed to spend a winter’s night on the cold streets of Johannesburg – and will even stump up a large amount
Mobile data usage and traffic volume growth in South Africa’s townships is running well ahead of the average growth rate countrywide, Vodacom said on Wednesday. It’s a trend that’s been noted by
In a potentially groundbreaking development, MTN and Vodafone have announced that MTN Mobile Money and M-Pesa customers in East Africa will soon be able to transfer money to each other
In the latest episode of South Africa’s leading technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about e.tv serving papers on government over its digital television migration policy as well as the reaction of communications minister Faith
Less than three weeks after Vodacom hiked its subscription fees for a range of contract packages and a week after Telkom revealed plans to hike line rental fees, MTN is following suit, announcing it intends revising subscription rates for its contract and data plans