Discovery Health has installed a speech recognition solution from Intelleca Voice & Mobile to enable its Vitality members to buy cellular airtime at discounted rates.
Mobile network operators Vodacom and MTN have identified mobile applications, content, billing and usability as the main focus areas in getting subscribers to use their fledgling data services.
Tiscali believes the local cellular phone industry is continuing to grow nine years after the first networks went live, despite most analysts predicting it would slow down after five years.
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The Department of Communications has elaborated on the plan to distribute four million free SIM cards to the underprivileged.
Comverse has launched a combined pre- and post-billing system that it says will reduce the cost of investment and eliminate the need for separate systems.
MTN appears to be hedging its bets with a view to working with whichever bidder is awarded the second national operator (SNO) licence.
Clickatell says it expects a healthy growth in SMS application and services internationally as the positive trend around mobile messaging continues.
Months after Vodacom and the other two mobile networks were grilled by Parliament over complaints of customer service, the company has announced that it tops a government-commissioned consumer survey.
The minority shareholders in the second network operator (SNO) licence have questioned financial and business aspects of the bids put forward for the remaining 51% stake.
Vodacom and its retail partners have adopted a prepaid solution developed by Comparex Africa.
SA mobile operators have welcomed the GSM Association and European Commission`s stance against SMS spam.
The Independent Communications Authority of SA has approved the reduction of standard time fixed-to-mobile call charges between Telkom and Cell C.