Neotel cuts the cost of tech-agnostic broadband

Internet provider Neotel has launched affordable, enhanced high-speed broadband services. Sunil Joshi, MD and CEO of Neotel, comments: “Customers in South Africa want a service and generally do not care about the underlying technology. In response to that feedback,...

Virgin offers free on-net calls

Virgin Mobile South Africa’s (VMSA’s) new product proposition offers free on-net calls to all its contract and prepaid customers. CEO Anton Landman yesterday revealed a new tiered offering, which went live from 1 November 2014. The proposition covers prepaid,...

Targeted attacks set to go wild

Targeted attacks are set to become rampant from more countries as hackers have found success targeting victims around the world. This is one of the findings from the Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: The Invisible becomes Visible report, which also...

Digital marketing budgets set for growth

Marketers are investing in the customer experience to drive business advantage and profitable revenue growth, according to a survey of marketing executives by Gartner. The survey found that marketing budgets remained healthy in 2014, with, on average, companies...

Load shedding impacts Telkom services

Telkom services are being impacted by Eskom’s nationwide load shedding schedule. Depending on the duration of load shedding, Telkom may lose some core network elements which can impact customer services. “The company understands the great inconvenience disconnection...

Lenovo completes Motorola Mobility buy-out

Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google is complete. The acquisition of the Motorola brand and Motorola’s portfolio of innovative smartphones like Moto X, Moto G, Moto E and the DROID series, as well as the future Motorola product roadmap,...