Vodacom, keen to get more South Africans onto its mobile broadband network, has launched a 7-inch 3G tablet that costs less than R1 000. The launch of the Smart Tab 3G comes just two months after the mobile operator launched the successful Smart Kicka, an entry-level smartphone that
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Vodacom and Deezer have entered into an exclusive partnership to provide the mobile operator’s customers access to the music service’s 35m songs. The announcement follows speculation earlier this week that Deezer was looking
If there’s one group of local companies that doesn’t need help, it’s our telecommunications providers. For decades, this cosy oligopoly has reaped the enormous benefits of rapidly growing new markets, from cellular telephony to data. And yet now they are whining about unfair
Deezer, a Paris-based digital music streaming service that competes with Spotify, is in talks with Vodacom “as it seeks to expand in Africa faster than its rival”, Bloomberg reported on Monday. An unnamed Bloomberg source said that Vodacom will offer its customers access to
PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts that 72% of South Africans will access the Internet through their cellphone by 2018. Will Cell C still be competing in this market and will these new mobile data consumers be getting bang for
South Africa’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom, has told public hearings on competition in South Africa’s technology sector that operators are being “disintermediated” by over-the-top (OTT) providers like WhatsApp. The company was presenting its views to a panel of Icasa councillors and
Telkom wants preferential access to spectrum in the digital dividend bands currently occupied by television broadcasters because historically it has not had access to sub-1GHz spectrum, while its mobile rivals have. The operator should get access to
Telkom will launch an LTE Advanced (LTE-A) network, offering next-generation mobile broadband speeds to South African consumers, before the end of the year, the group’s chief operating officer, Brian Armstrong, has announced. Speaking at a consumer broadband
Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos said on Tuesday that the mobile operator is likely to challenge communications regulator Icasa’s final call termination rates, published on Monday, though it has not disclosed on what legal basis
Meeting a court-imposed deadline with just a day to spare, Icasa has published its final call termination rates for the period from October 2014 to 30 September 2017 – and South Africa’s big operators are likely to be pleased with the outcome