Eight months after being awarded a licence in Mozambique, Vodacom has yet to start operations. With Telkom investors watching and the Mozambican media crying foul, Vodacom says negotiations are simply taking some time.
The announcement of cheap SMSs from Cape-based mobile Java outfit Mobi Wireless need not scare mobile operators. Mobi Wireless will both stay off their turf and make them money.
As an industry matures, one expects that its constituent parts will work closer together to deliver a quality product. This is certainly not the case in the cellphone industry.
MTN will buy secure subscriber identity module (SIM) cards from Prism Holdings to deliver payment services and applications to its mobile subscribers.
The MTN share rose 36c to R13.54 yesterday after the cellular network said its subscriber base had risen about 17.7% to almost 6.7 million subscribers during the third quarter to 31 December.
RF Group, importer of Nokia mobile phones, has launched software that takes four of SA`s most widely spoken languages to Nokia 3310 cellphones.
Dimension Data has developed the iBOSS Guardian fraud prevention and revenue assurance solution for telecommunications operators.
Autopage Cellular, the cellular service provider in the Altech stable, has appointed Stephen Blewett, former executive head of Mozambican cellular network operator M-Cel, as MD.
Home-grown start-up Mobi Wireless offers cellphone users the chance to bypass their mobile network operators with SMS messages, saving up to two-thirds on international costs and 40% on local costs. Cell C users are not yet invited.
A hoax SMS message is being forwarded to cellphone users claiming that if they receive a call and their mobile phones display ACE-? on the screen, their cellphones will be infected by a virus, says Vodacom.
MTN has reduced its prepaid customer churn following the implementation of a data mining tool provided by SAS Institute.
Tiscali World Online will open an integrated communications store at Cresta Shopping Centre on 8 February.
An SMS message, claiming that cellphone users could be the victims of a new virus, has been dismissed by service provider Vodacom as nothing more than a malicious hoax.