BlackBerry’s App World is the most popular application store for smartphones in SA, new research has found. A report by Columinate and commissioned by Vodacom polled 11 industry professionals and about 400 smartphone owners and 35 developers
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Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys on Friday morning piqued the interest of SA smartphone users when he tweeted: “Just announced an SA apps ecosystem including local application store launching next week”. Now more details have emerged about
Vodacom has expressed “surprise” after being served with a compliance notice by national consumer commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala for allegedly refusing to amend its customer contracts to explain its call rates. Vodacom and other operators
The department of communications is working on a number of long overdue projects that could have a profound impact on the technology sector. If it delivers on its new approach, SA has a good chance of building a more competitive
Vodacom will cut data prices for prepaid customers from 19 September by up to 42%, the country’s largest mobile operator said on Wednesday. This follows price reductions for contract customers announced earlier this month. However, the company has kept
Could Naspers become SA’s newest telecommunications operator? It is looking increasingly likely that the Cape Town-based media giant will commit the billions of rand necessary to do just that. Its Internet service provider subsidiary, MWeb
Some of the broadband packages being offered by mobile operators are not sustainable in the short or the medium term but may become so in a few years once mobile networks based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology become more pervasive. That’s the view
Banking group Absa and cellular network operator Vodacom have signed a “multimillion-rand agreement”, which they say will “accelarate the pace of mobile innovation and expand the range of banking and mobile services on offer to
Cell C will introduce new broadband products in the next few weeks and bring its long-running special offers, introduced a year ago, to an end. The company, which has rolled out 1 900 third-generation mobile broadband towers
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia is in early talks with SA mobile operators about offering fixed-cost data plans on most of its handsets in similar vein to Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), TechCentral has established. For now, only BlackBerry