SA’s cellular network operators have been found wanting over service quality levels by their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). On Friday, Icasa announced the results of a quality-of-service survey
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After a week’s break, TalkCentral, TechCentral’s business technology podcast, is back with a bumper show and a special podcast. In this week’s episode, we talk about Vodacom’s network outage, 8ta’s broadband special
SA cellular operators are yet to provide details of how many subscribers were disconnected from their networks on Thursday night as the deadline arrived for consumers to register their Sim cards under the Regulation of
After nearly a full workday of intermittent outages across cellular operator Vodacom’s network, which have infuriated subscribers, the company has finally provided details of what has caused the problems and promised
South Africans who do not have their Sim cards registered by the end of the day on Thursday will have their cellphone numbers deactivated. Rica is the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act, which
With just a day left before mobile operators are forced to switch off customers that haven’t registered their Sim cards, only Telkom’s 8ta has completed the process. Deputy communications minister Obed Bapela said on Wednesday
Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, last week introduced a mobile broadband special offer that deeply undercuts its parent’s own fixed-line broadband prices. It’s a bizarre situation that underscores Telkom’s lack of a coherent long-term
Vodacom was the biggest brand spender on television advertising for the first four months of 2011, according to Ornico’s MediaTrac, which collects and analyses advertisements and brand publicity. Mobile operators spent “well over”
Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, surprised the telecommunications industry and consumers on Thursday, launching the most aggressive mobile broadband special offers the SA market has seen to date. But how does its pricing stack up against its rivals?
The only way universal access to broadband services is going to become a reality in SA and elsewhere in the world is through a combination of regulation of pricing and spectrum allocation and sensible investment from both government