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Sentech in dire straits »
State-owned signal distributor Sentech is in dire straits. A submission from the company’s board to parliament reveals its auditors are concerned about its ability to continue as a going concern. TechCentral is in possession of...
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With M-Pesa, Vodacom takes aim at cellular rivals »
Kenyan telecommunications operator Safaricom has increased its market share from about 60% three years ago to over 80% on the back of its M-Pesa cellphone money transfer service. Now Vodacom is hoping to emulate those...
August 31 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Vodacom aims for 10m M-Pesa users »
Vodacom expects to sign up 10m M-Pesa mobile money users within three years. The telecommunications operator's director in charge of the product’s launch, Romeo Kumalo, revealed the ambitious target during the product’s launch in Midrand,...
August 31 2010 / 8 comments / Read More »News
No big bandwidth bang with Eassy »
The East Africa Submarine System (Eassy) cable has not made the sort of splash on the SA broadband market as many had expected it...
Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »Microsoft forecasts clouds over Africa »
Microsoft may eventually build two data centres in Africa, possibly in SA, to serve the continent, but no decisions have been made yet. However,...
Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »The Grid goes global »
The Grid, Vodacom’s somewhat rival to Naspers’s MXit social chat service, is going global. After launching the service in Nigeria and Tanzania in 2009,...
Sep 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »Give fund’s R1bn to Telkom, says MWeb »
In a surprising move, MWeb is lobbying government to give Telkom the more than R1bn in cash stashed away in the universal service fund...
Sep 1 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »Kelly Group mum as Mdwaba takes a holiday »
Ousted Kelly Group director Mthunzi Mdwaba will have his say at disciplinary hearing on 22 September. Until then, sources say, he has been placed...
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