The group aims to "de-risk" Telkom Mobile as the unit has yet to gain traction.
Local operators offer Apple's new flagship smartphone, and its new lower cost smartphone, to contract customers.
With just a R1 500 price difference between the "unapologetically plastic" colourful iPhone range and the iPhone proper, why would a consumer opt for the 5C?
Sales of smartphones accounted for 55% of overall global mobile phone sales in the third quarter of 2013, says Gartner.
MTN Uganda says deliberate investment is needed to realise the benefits of mobile money in Africa - and SA is taking the advice.
The operator's Neotel purchase will enable it to go head-to-head against Telkom, becoming an alternative fixed-line option.
Internet traffic from Africa's mobile networks will spur faster traffic growth than in any other region.
Vodacom has enough space to leverage its balance sheet for acquisitions.
Half of SA's mobile duopoly inches forward in the mobile price war, while the other loses out.
The operator's 200MB package of prepaid data a month - for a year - will cost R49.
Consumers on plans billed per minute get stuck with the short straw when it comes to dropped calls.