Regulators are taking extraordinarily long to weigh up a number of big deals, including Vodacom’s proposed acquisition of Neotel, while the industry waits on tenterhooks for news that could change the sector. A number of significant deals that could
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WhatsApp, the world’s most popular smartphone instant messaging platform, has started rolling out voice dialling in its application (Android users only for now), striking fear into the hearts of mobile
Far from having any plans to change Vodacom’s name to match parent Vodafone, Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao revealed in Johannesburg on Wednesday that the global telecommunications group could
The developing world will drive future growth of new smartphone connections, research released by industry body the GSMA at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in Spain this week showed. And it’s cheap, entry-level devices that will drive that uptake. So
The chief officer of Vodacom’s consumer business unit, Phil Patel, is moving on. He will be replaced in the role by Godfrey Motsa, who is currently chief officer of regional operations. From April, Patel will take up the role of regional commercial director
Telkom informed shareholders on Thursday that it remains locked in talks with MTN over a deal that could see the predominantly fixed-line operator outsource the management of its mobile radio access network
Imagine a cellphone that weighs almost 5kg, is the size of a briefcase and costs R75 000 in today’s money? Believe it or not, that’s what early adopters had to put up with in the early days on mobile in the 1980s. To commemorate the first-ever mobile phone call 30 years ago
The strong rally in Telkom’s share price has continued, with the counter touching a fresh five-year high of R70 in early trading on the JSE on Tuesday. Since its low point 18 months ago, Telkom’s share price has climbed by just shy of 500%. A R10 000 investment in Telkom on 6 May May 2013, when its
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So reads the opening line of Leon Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The novel comes to mind when looking at the prospects that confront mobile money. Success stories have many similarities, but failed efforts fail for their own
With the launch last week of the iPad Air 2, Apple quietly announced a new Sim product that looks set to have a profound impact on mobile telecommunications operators worldwide. Apple’s reprogrammable Sim allows users to switch between data plans without the need to get a new Sim for each carrier