The department of telecommunications & postal services’s new director-general, Robert Nkuna, is going to have no time to ease gently into his new office in Hatfield, Pretoria. Indeed, he’s going to have to hit the ground running. The former councillor at
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The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) on Monday called on South Africa’s mobile operators to “embrace the open-access spirit” of government’s national integrated ICT policy white paper by launching “genuine wholesale service offerings”. This, the association said
Wireless Business Solutions, the holding company of iBurst and Broadlink, has been ordered by the high court in Johannesburg to pay Vodacom more than R40m in interconnection fees. The court handed down the judgment in September – it has not been
Robert Nkuna is the new director-general of the department of telecommunications & postal services, replacing Rosey Sekese, who was “expelled” from her post after being suspended in 2015. Cabinet ratified the decision to appoint Nkuna, who is
A stake in Vodacom is back up for sale following the collapse of a previous deal in May that was aimed at increasing black ownership of the mobile operator. The Vodacom shares being sold by the Public Investment Corp
The country’s largest Wi-Fi provider, AlwaysOn, now allows customers to convert airtime into Wi-Fi data for its relatively pervasive network. At the entry level, R15 converts to 150MB of AlwaysOn data, which is less than half
It is borderline criminal for mobile operators to be charging as much as R500/MB for data use while roaming in certain countries. It’s 2016! The overarching problem with roaming, of course, is that there
Cell C’s full financial results, for the six months ended June 2016, provide detailed insight into the performance of South Africa’s third largest mobile telecommunications operator for the first time. The numbers are contained in a
Vodacom has introduced a technology on its network called dual-carrier high-speed uplink packet access, or DC-HSUPA, that it said will speed up data uploads for consumers on 3G. The technology is an evolution of high-speed
R39,5bn. That’s the amount South Africans spent on cellphone contracts in 2015. This analysis of the market is possible for the first time after the publication of a transaction circular by Blue Label Telecoms, which detailed