An online petition is calling on South Africa’s government to reject calls by mobile networks to regulate over-the-top services such as WhatsApp and Skype. Online women’s magazine
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South Africa’s third largest mobile network, Cell C, says that possible local regulation of over-the-top (OTT) services such as WhatsApp and Skype could harm the industry and consumers. OTT services – which range from WhatsApp to Skype and
Parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications & postal services has set aside a full day later this month to probe so-called “over the top” (OTT) services to determine whether policy interventions are required to govern them. OTT services include the likes
If you were experiencing any problems with the messaging service WhatsApp on New Year’s Eve, you were not alone. Users across the globe complained that their WhatsApp messages weren’t going through. Some of them thought that is was connection
South Africa’s biggest mobile network Vodacom wants a regulatory approach to data-driven over-the-top applications such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp. WhatsApp has grown to over 10m
Over-the-top services such as Internet messaging application WhatsApp, are eating Vodacom’s “lunch” but the company has no plan to block the service. This is according to group CEO Shameel Joosub.
Social media applications dominate the South African smartphone scene, local research has found. According to data in the new South African Social Media Landscape study by World Wide Worx and Fuseware, chat application WhatsApp is the most dominant application on smartphones
Mobile operator MTN has fired a shot at popular chat application WhatsApp. The operator fumed at the popularity of chat over-the-top operators. “You have these players which are getting
Cell C has decided to bring an end to free access to WhatsApp, it said on Thursday. In its place, the mobile operator is adding a R5 WhatsApp bundle to its portfolio of products, providing a month’s access to the
Facebook chose South Africa over Kenya and Nigeria for its first African office because the country has a strong advertising agency ecosystem and the companies it’s worked most closely with to date are