The South African government has allocated R2,5bn for a push to roll out broadband networks across the country over the next three years, a potential boon to telecommunications carriers such as Telkom. The first phase of the project will
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Communications regulator Icasa should reconsider its plans to licence high-demand spectrum through an auction process.
In its current form, it will make our telecommunications market less competitive and lock out the
Modern-day flagship smartphones from brands such as Apple, Sony and Samsung are simply too expensive for most South Africans. Or some people just don’t want to break the bank on a telephone. For those, Vodacom’s 2014 Smart
It’s been less than a decade since Apple shook the mobile telecommunications industry to its foundations with the original iPhone. The handset helped turn Apple into the world’s most valuable company (US$620bn this week) and inflicted huge
Four months after rival Vodacom South Africa pulled the plug on its mobile payments platform M-Pesa, MTN South Africa is doing the same with its Mobile Money offering. The move by MTN comes just two weeks after news emerged that
Vodacom has won an estimated R5bn contract with the South African government as the national treasury seeks to cut costs, according to three people familiar with the matter. The tender is to supply as many as 1,3m government
Experts say the price of voice calls over mobile networks could become obsolete with the advent of 5G and so-called over-the-top (OTT) services like WhatsApp. This was the focus of a panel discussion at
Vodacom doesn’t have the spectrum it needs to launch next-generation 4G+ broadband services nationwide, but the unique nature of the Gautrain tunnel system has allowed it to launch the technology on a limited scale in Gauteng. As a result of the deployment, Vodacom
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has come to the defence of government’s upcoming policy on allocating so-called “high-demand spectrum” for 4G/LTE wireless
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele is confident that his office can win a lawsuit to stop a high-speed broadband auction from going ahead. Cwele’s office recently asked