First came “082” and “083” for Vodacom and MTN, then “084” for Cell C when the third mobile operator launched a decade ago. Now a new number prefix, “081”, will be introduced this week, and it belongs to Telkom. Telkom’s new mobile arm, which will
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Neotel expects to double the number of retail consumers using its network within the next six to nine months as a direct result of its launching its first prepaid services. MD Ajay Pandey says he’d be
Episode 11 of TalkCentral, SA’s business technology podcast, is now available for download or audio streaming. This week your hosts Candice Jones and Duncan McLeod talk about the imminent launch of Telkom’s mobile offerings and its “Heita” marketing campaign.
A bubble similar to the dot-com mania of the late 1990s is inflating in the mobile payments industry in SA. And many of companies are going to be hurt when it bursts. That’s the view of Standard Bank director Herman Singh
Cell C plans to fight to use the term “4Gs” in its marketing campaign, saying the complaint by its competitors amounts to “corporate bullying”. The mobile operator will appeal against
Cell C’s advertising campaign promoting its new high-speed data network has hit a roadblock. The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the operator can no longer use the term “4Gs”. This follows a complaint lodged by Cell C
Wondering what all the Heita branding is about? It’s all pointing to a teaser campaign by Telkom ahead of the launch of its mobile network next week. But can the fixed-line operator really take on the cellphone incumbents at their own game?
An interface glitch between Vodafone and maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, Research In Motion (RIM), left Vodacom’s BlackBerry users without access to their e-mails and applications for several hours on Friday morning.
Telkom will take the wraps off its new mobile telecommunications network in just three weeks from now, on 14 October, and in the process launch SA’s fourth cellular operator. That’s the obvious conclusion to be drawn from an invitation that the JSE-listed telecoms group issued on Tuesday, in which it has invited media and VIPs to an event at Lanseria airport, north of Johannesburg.
Falling mobile termination rates and slow recovery of the economy are dampening the growth of SA’s telecommunications market. That’s according to a new report from BMI-TechKnowledge (BMI-T). The report forecasts that the industry will grow only 5% over the next five years, with most of that growth coming from data services.