Vodacom is the most reputable company among South Africa’s top 20 JSE-listed companies by revenue, a new survey has found. The 2013 RepTrak Pulse survey placed Vodacom rival MTN in fifth place, down from second place last year. Old Mutual placed second, with retailer Pick ’n Pay and Sasol taking
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Vodacom Group expects its headline earnings per share to rise by as much as 25%, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Wednesday, bolstered by a strong operating performance in spite of fierce price competition in South Africa, its biggest market. The group’s earnings have also
South Africa’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom, has begun charging an 11c interconnection fee to carry short message service (SMS) text onto its network. The move comes after Cell C allegedly began offering wireless application service providers owned by Blue Label Telecoms the ability to send and receive messages to and from any
iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) is by no means the biggest offender when it comes to unpaid spectrum licence fees, information in TechCentral’s possession shows. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is owed a total of R372m in unpaid spectrum fees from a variety
France’s Orange has signed a deal to allow tower operator IHS to oversee more than 2 000 of its towers in the West African markets of Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon. Though Orange will continue to own the towers, IHS will manage them for the next 15 years Surplus space on
Cell C has sidestepped a potential Competition Commission investigation after it revised its wholesale bulk SMS pricing rates to all wireless application service providers (Wasps), prompting the industry association, Waspa, to withdraw a member decision to lodge a complaint with the competition body
Vodacom has reduced the cost of its wholesale bulk SMS products by 20%, from 17,5c/message to 14c. The rate excludes VAT and there are various discounts available for large volume purchases. The move comes a week after Cell C announced its own reduction
It looks likely that Internet users will have to tighten their belts from next year. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has raised the idea of introducing a tax on broadband use from 2014.
The minister has suggested that a rate of 50c/MB should apply, with a built-in escalation in the rate in subsequent tax years
There was a tight race between Sipho Maseko and Brian Armstrong for Telkom’s top job, a source claiming to have knowledge of the appointment process has told TechCentral. Telkom confirmed the news of Maseko’s appointment as its new group CEO in a statement to shareholders after TechCentral broke
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered fruit juice company Liqui-Fruit to withdraw an advertising campaign for its blackberry fruit juice after the regulatory body upheld objections from the South African arm of mobile device company BlackBerry that the ads made misleading claims, exploited the