Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki will preside over a ceremony next week to break ground on a new US$14,5bn technology town called Konza City. Konza City will consist of facilities meant to attract business process outsourcing ventures. The Kenyan government wants to attract international technology companies
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This year will be a pivotal one for the South African SMS industry as the issue of interconnection fees is resolved, and mobile networks charge each other for terminating application-to-person (A2P) SMS messages doing away with the vagaries of the gentlemen’s agreement between the operators that maintain
South Africa has an estimated 6,7m broadband subscribers, yet Telkom’s broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) products account for only 10,6% of this number. There aren’t even a million DSL connections in service – and that’s including businesses. For most South African consumers, mobile
Although the iPhone 5, which was launched in South Africa last month, has the necessary hardware to support the fourth-generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) networks being built by MTN and Vodacom, the handset won’t connect to these networks until Apple has completed its own testing of them
In a move that will be seen as a boost for Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, the US Federal Communications Commission has given AT&T permission to purchase spectrum in a key frequency band in which the telecommunications giant wants to deploy next-generation wireless broadband. AT&T has
Mobile operator Cell C has finally launched its trial of its next-generation mobile broadband network based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology. The company says that a “select group of heavy data customers that fall in coverage areas have been identified to form part of Cell C’s free trial LTE service
Another year is almost done and 2012 has certainly been a busy one for South Africa’s technology industry. We know what our favourite stories were in 2012, but which articles did TechCentral’s readers click on the most. This are the pieces, in ascending order from 10 to one, that generated the most reads during
After considerable debate about this list between TechCentral’s editors, we have settled on our South African Newsmakers of 2012. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year. Also
MTN has emerged as the winner of a series of tests conducted by TechCentral this week into the speed and responsiveness of South African mobile operators’ fourth-generation (4G) mobile networks. Telkom’s 8ta came off worst, although the company is yet to launch commercial 4G services. Three
Vodacom has begun offering commercial 4G services in parts of the Western Cape. Coverage is available in the CBD, Stellenbosch, along the Atlantic seaboard (including Camps Bay), at the Waterfront and at Century City. Vodacom says more sites are planned for the region for early next year. 4G coverage