Date | Title | Description |
04.11.2024 | South Africa's Struggle with 2G: A Legacy Network Dilemma | In the digital age, South Africa finds itself shackled to the past. The country is still importing 2G phones, a relic of a bygone era. This is not just a nuisance; it’s a barrier to progress. The chief technology officer of Cell C, Schalk V... |
04.11.2024 | The Tug of War in South Africa's Telecoms: Fair Share vs. Free Market | The South African telecommunications landscape is in the midst of a heated debate. At the center of this storm is the concept of "Fair Share." This idea suggests that over-the-top (OTT) service providers, like Netflix and Facebook... |
04.11.2024 | The Tug of War in South Africa's Telecom Landscape: Fair Share and Legacy Devices | In the heart of South Africa's telecommunications sector, a storm brews. The debate over the "Fair Share" principle rages on, with industry leaders divided. Meanwhile, the legacy of 2G devices clings stubbornly to the market, hamp... |
31.10.2024 | Bookmarks | Elon Musk’s employees don’t share his politics | MAGA Hatter … Elon Musk on the stump for Donald Trump. Image: Free Malaysia Today
These are the articles, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. Elon Musk’s employees don’t share his ... |
30.10.2024 | Cell C CEO opposes regulated ‘Fair Share’ in South African telecoms | Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes
Jorge Mendes says operators should come to commercial agreements instead of regulation mandating Fair Share.
Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has weighed in on the “Fair Share” debate raging in South Africa, saying network o... |
30.10.2024 | Why is South Africa still importing 2G phones? | Cell C chief technology officer Schalk Visser
Cell C chief technology officer Schalk Visser has said the continued importation of legacy 2G devices to be sold into the local market is a hindrance in the way of shutting down legacy networks ... |
08.10.2024 | Why Capitec launched an MVNO – and what comes next | Capitec Connect head Dalene Steyn
It’s been two years since Capitec ventured into telecommunications. In that time, its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), Capitec Connect, has signed up 1.3 million active clients – and the focus is gro... |
07.10.2024 | Old Mutual Connect is South Africa’s latest MVNO | Old Mutual has joined the growing number of South African banks and financial services companies in launching a mobile virtual network operator.
“The insurance giant will be offering competitive mobile services designed to meet the needs of... |
01.10.2024 | The Tug of War in South Africa's Mobile Landscape: RCS and Capitec's Rise | In the vibrant world of South Africa's mobile communications, two stories are unfolding. One is a battle for messaging supremacy, while the other is a tale of rapid growth in the banking sector. Both narratives reveal the shifting dynamics ... |
01.10.2024 | Capitec Connect’s extraordinary growth: 1.2 million customers in two years | Capitec’s mobile virtual network operator, Capitec Connect, has soared past the one million customer mark, just two years after the proposition was launched.
Capitec Connect, which made its debut in September 2022 and which piggybacks on th... |
27.09.2024 | iPhone users will have to wait for RCS support in South Africa | Some of South Africa’s mobile operators are putting in the legwork required to provide Rich Communication Services (RCS) support for iPhones running iOS 18, but none yet supports the protocol.
RCS, a protocol and standard developed and main... |
23.09.2024 | Blue Label is not ‘stripping’ Cell C’s assets, Icasa hears | Confusion over the difference between ownership and control has muddied the waters at Icasa public hearings into the transaction.
Cell C said its application to communications regulator Icasa for the transfer of control its network and spec... |
20.09.2024 | Vodacom signs its first MVNO customer | Vodacom South Africa has built an enablement platform for mobile virtual network operators, signed up its first MVNO client and declared the platform “open for business”.
The client, Mr Price Mobile, is the first MVNO to be supported on Vod... |
17.09.2024 | Cell C's Fight for Survival: Navigating a Competitive Landscape | Cell C, once a promising contender in South Africa's telecommunications arena, finds itself grappling with fierce competition and market dynamics that threaten its very existence. The company's CEO, Jorge Mendes, has laid bare the challenge... |
16.09.2024 | Why MVNOs are key to Cell C’s turnaround plan | Cell C Jorges Mendes unveiling the company’s new brand identity at a recent event in Johannesburg
Cell C was South Africa’s first mobile operator to host a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) on its infrastructure. Today they have become... |
16.09.2024 | Cell C was ‘handicapped from the start’: Jorge Mendes | Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes
Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has said the mobile operator was “handicapped from the start” by the actions of rivals MTN and Vodacom, which both jacked up call termination rates prior to their new rival’s entry into the m... |
16.09.2024 | TCS | Rebooting Cell C: Jorge Mendes sets out his strategic plan | - |
13.09.2024 | Bookmarks | The music industry has a hard drive problem | These are the articles, videos, podcasts and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying: The music industry’s reliance on 1990s hard driv... |
12.09.2024 | Cell C confident it can trade its way out of debt | Cell C chief financial officer El Kope
Cell C, South Africa’s fourth largest mobile operator, is confident it will have enough cash to settle its shareholder debt due in the next three to five years, as it continues to execute a turnaround ... |
06.09.2024 | South Africa: Telkom's $355m Sale of Tower Business Approved By Competition Tribunal | TLDR
Telkom sells its masts and towers business Swiftnet to Towerco Bidco, led by Actis and Royal Bafokeng Holdings, for R6.75 billion.
Competition Tribunal of South Africa approves the sale, emphasizing public interest concerns addressed b... |
30.08.2024 | Blue Label's Ambitious Bid for Cell C: A New Era or a Risky Gamble? | In the fast-paced world of telecommunications, the stakes are high. Blue Label Telecoms is poised to take a significant step forward by seeking control of Cell C, a mobile operator that has faced its share of challenges. This move is not ju... |
30.08.2024 | Rain standalone mobile product launched at R165/month | Rain, the telecommunications operator specialising in fixed-wireless access products, now has a standalone offering aimed at mobile devices.
The new product, named Rain Mobile, offers a 4G Sim with 2GB of data, 60 minutes and 100 SMSes for ... |
30.08.2024 | Bookmarks | World’s call centre capital is gripped by AI fever – and fear | These are the articles, podcasts, videos and more that caught the attention of TechCentral’s editorial team in the past 24 hours. The world’s call centre capital is gripped by AI fever – and fear: We were all expecting this headline at some... |
29.08.2024 | Cell C network quality shows dramatic improvement | The latest Mobile Network Experience report from Opensignal shows that Vodacom has the most consistent quality among South Africa’s mobile operators, while MTN leads in 5G. But it’s smaller market player Cell C that has shown the biggest im... |
29.08.2024 | Public hearings as Blue Label seeks control of Cell C | Blue Label co-CEO Brett Levy
Communications regulator Icasa and the Competition Tribunal will have separate public hearings in the coming months to investigate Blue Label Telecoms’ proposed acquisition of control in mobile operator Cell C.
... |
22.08.2024 | Listed: all the MVNOs in South Africa – H2 2024 edition | South Africa has a dynamic MVNO industry. It has been some seven months since TechCentral last published a comprehensive list of all the mobile virtual network operators in the local market. The emergence of two new entrants in that short p... |
21.08.2024 | Blue Label core earnings to take a knock | A statue of Nelson Mandela at Blue Label’s head office in Sandton, Johannesburg
Blue Label Telecoms, the largest shareholder in mobile operator Cell C, said on Wednesday that its full-year core headline earnings per share will take a knock ... |
16.08.2024 | Bookmarks | The most detailed map of brain connections ever made | Researchers have created the most detailed map of brain connections ever made. That is one of the videos that caught the TechCentral editorial team’s eye over the past 24 hours. Here’s what else we’ve been reading. This is the most detailed... |
15.08.2024 | Cell C in major brand refresh | The new Cell C logo unveiled on stage at an event in Johannesburg on Thursday
Cell C on Thursday refreshed its brand at a major launch event in Johannesburg aimed at signalling that the mobile operator remains a force to be reckoned with in... |
18.07.2024 | No load shedding – but ‘load reduction’ still hurting telcos | Nomvuyiso Batyi
Telecommunications industry lobby group the Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) – which represents South Africa’s big telecommunications operators – has warned that the suspension of load shedding at national level ... |
17.07.2024 | Plenty of room for Telkom in mobile infrastructure | Telkom’s Lunga Siyo
Telkom Mobile, the network operator launched as 8ta back in 2010, has no plans to follow rival Cell C and stop investing in last-mile mobile network infrastructure.
That’s the word from Lunga Siyo, CEO of Telkom’s consum... |
04.07.2024 | Controversial spectrum deal: Icasa questions Vodacom’s legal tactics | Icasa chairman Mothibi Ramusi
Icasa chairman Mothibi Ramusi has hit back at Vodacom after the mobile operator accused the communications regulator of unlawfully approving spectrum “pooling” agreements between MTN, Cell C and Liquid Intellig... |
03.07.2024 | Telkom blasts Icasa in ‘spectrum pooling’ case | Telkom has criticised communications regulator Icasa over its alleged failure to engage stakeholders – including other mobile network operators – before approving spectrum pooling agreements between MTN, Cell C and Liquid Intelligent Techno... |
27.06.2024 | We are not law breakers: MTN hits back at Vodacom lawsuit | Image: MTN
MTN South Africa said on Thursday that it will fight Vodacom’s lawsuit that alleged spectrum pooling arrangements with Cell C and Liquid Intelligent Technologies were unlawful.
TechCentral reported last month that Vodacom had sou... |
13.06.2024 | Telkom warns Icasa call rate cuts will punish smaller players | Telkom’s Lunga Siyo
Telkom has told Icasa that the process the communications regulator followed in setting the latest proposed changes to call termination rates, although long and detailed, reached the wrong conclusions.
Termination rates ... |
12.06.2024 | Cell C stores to be sold in franchising plan | Cell C has announced plans to sell 44 of its 47 company-owned stores as it moves to a franchising model.
The mobile operator, which is the focus of a turnaround being led by CEO Jorge Mendes, said in a statement on Wednesday that the store ... |
12.06.2024 | Win for MTN as Standard Bank makes MVNO shift | Kartik Mistry
Standard Bank’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) has partnered with MTN South Africa for network services.
Standard Bank Mobile, which is one of South Africa’s longer-running MVNOs, said in a statement on Wednesday that ... |
31.05.2024 | Icasa to hold public hearings on call rates | Communications regulator Icasa will hold public hearings into contentious proposed changes to wholesale call termination rates in South Africa on 13 June 2024.
In March, the regulator proposed slashing mobile call termination rates – or the... |
30.05.2024 | Minister sets new dates for 2G, 3G shutdown in South Africa | Communications minister Mondli Gungubele
Government has set a new date for 2G and 3G mobile networks in South Africa to be shut down in South Africa.
According to a new policy document published on the eve of the general election, governmen... |
24.05.2024 | Vodacom drags Icasa to court over ‘secret’ spectrum deals | Vodacom has filed an application at the high court in Pretoria seeking an urgent interdict to stop rival MTN from using “spectrum pooling” arrangements that it claims were approved unlawfully by communications regulator Icasa in June 2022.
... |
13.05.2024 | Cutting wholesale call rates a waste of time: Vodacom | Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said on Monday that planned further cuts to call termination rates will have no real impact on the retail prices paid by consumers.
Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Monday, Joosub urged sector regu... |
22.04.2024 | Mothibi Ramusi sworn in as new Icasa chairman | Mothibi Ramusi
Icasa councillor Mothibi Ramusi has been sworn in as the new chairman of the communications regulator and will kick off his five-year term on 2 May 2024. He will be the sixth chair of the Icasa council.
Ramusi, who is well kn... |
22.04.2024 | Telkom towers sale heads to shareholder vote | Telkom shareholders will soon vote on a plan to sell the group’s towers and masts to a consortium led by private equity firm Actis.
TechCentral reported last month that Telkom had reached an agreement with the consortium — made up of Actis ... |
16.04.2024 | Icasa too aggressive in cutting fixed termination rates: Ispa | The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has raised concerns about what it has described as the “aggressive” proposed cut in fixed-line call termination rates.
These wholesale rates, charged by operators for calls carried between ... |
02.04.2024 | MVNO boom in South Africa | South Africa’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market has shown significant growth in the past three years, with many new entrants establishing meaningful operations in the rapidly growing telecommunications subsector.
In particular,... |
27.03.2024 | Cell C network quality shows big improvement | Cell C has shown a big improvement in metrics used by monitor network experience by customers, according to a new report by OpenSignal.
This follows Cell C’s migration to partner networks operated by bigger rivals MTN and Vodacom and the sw... |
26.03.2024 | Fixed-line calls are being unfairly penalised: Telkom | Telkom has expressed dismay at communications regulator Icasa’s draft decision to cut fixed call termination rates – the amount one network charges another to carry calls between them – more “drastically” than it has mobile termination rate... |
25.03.2024 | MTN SA capex tops R10-billion amid load shedding fight | MTN South Africa invested R10.1-billion in its network in 2023 as it fought the impact of severe load shedding.
As a result, it said it has managed to offset the risk of customers leaving for rival networks, while delivering what MTN Group ... |
22.03.2024 | Icasa moves to slash wholesale call rates – again | Communications regulator Icasa has proposed slashing mobile call termination rates – the fees operators charge each other to carry calls between their networks – by more than half by next year.
The regulator said in a notice published in th... |
22.03.2024 | Telkom to sell towers to Actis, Royal Bafokeng | Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong
Telkom has reached an agreement with a consortium made up of Actis and Royal Bafokeng Holdings to sell Swiftnet, and towers and masts business, in a debt and equity deal that gives Swiftnet an enterprise va... |
20.03.2024 | Why South Africa may be stuck with 2G for longer | User reliance on legacy 2G and 3G networks is constraining the ability of network operators to migrate to newer technologies.
The December 2027 deadline, set by the department of communications & digital technologies, for operators to s... |
05.03.2024 | El Kope named full-time Cell C CFO | El Kope
El Kope, who has been serving as acting chief financial officer at troubled mobile operator Cell C, has been appointed to the position full time. She has also joined the board as an executive director.
A chartered accountant, Kope j... |
23.02.2024 | Cell C ready to pay outstanding spectrum bill | Cell C is now in a position to settle the outstanding debt its owes communications regulator Icasa for spectrum fees flowing the March 2022 spectrum auction.
The mobile operator acquired 10MHz of bandwidth at 3.5GHz for R288-million, but ha... |
31.01.2024 | Cell C’s best days are still to come: Jorge Mendes | Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes
Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes, in his second media engagement since taking the reins at the troubled mobile operator, said not only has the business been saved but that its best days still lie ahead of it.
Mendes, who was... |
12.09.2023 | Blue Label seeks new strategic investor for Cell C | Blue Label co-CEO Brett Levy
Blue Label Telecoms, which is seeking control of Cell C, wants to bring in a new strategic investor into the mobile operator in which it currently holds a 49.5% stake.
That’s according to Blue Label co-CEO Brett... |
28.08.2023 | Cell C claims it still needs ‘asymmetry’ with Vodacom, MTN | Jorge Mendes
Newly appointed Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes has called on communications regulator Icasa to continue to skew wholesale call rates in the company’s favour to ensure it can compete effectively with bigger rivals Vodacom and MTN.
The... |
28.08.2023 | New Cell C boss won’t start a price war | Newly appointed Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has no intention of starting a price war with his bigger rivals in the telecommunications industry.
Mendes, who was speaking to journalists on Monday for the first time since his appointment, said: “D... |
24.08.2023 | Cell C a big drag on Blue Label earnings | Blue Label Telecoms cautioned shareholders on Thursday that Cell C will drag down its earnings for the year ended 31 May 2023.
The JSE-listed technology, telecommunications and fintech company said headline earnings per share could tumble b... |
16.08.2023 | Cell C finance chief Lerato Pule quits | Lerato Pule
Less than a year after taking the reins from Zaf Mahomed as chief financial officer of Cell C, Lerato Pule has resigned from the mobile operator.
In a statement on Wednesday, Cell C confirmed Pule’s resignation, saying she is le... |
21.06.2023 | Cell C says its network migration is done | Cell C has completed the migration of its network to partners MTN and Vodacom. This as the mobile operator moves to cut costs and compete more effectively in difficult market conditions.
The network migration means Cell C customers now have... |
23.03.2023 | Cell C CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson steps down | Cell C CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson
Cell C CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson will step down from the mobile operator at the end of March.
The news sent the share price of Cell C’s largest shareholder, Blue Label Telecoms, sharply lower on Thur... |
23.02.2023 | Blue Label to make call on Cell C control within months | Brett Levy
Blue Label Telecoms, which owns about 49.5% of Cell C following the mobile operator’s recent recapitalisation, looks set to make an offer to take control of the company in the coming months.
Blue Label co-CEO Brett Levy, speaking... |
18.02.2023 | Cell C recap wrecks Blue Label’s interim earnings | Blue Label Telecoms warned on Friday that its interim results for the six months to end-November 2022 will show up to a 99% plunge in headline earnings per share (Heps).
The company, which is the largest shareholder in mobile operator Cell ... |
29.04.2022 | HP Digital Planet, Cell C bring top-class computing bundle to SA | HP and Cell C have partnered to bring a top-class laptop and data bundle to South Africans at a price they can afford.
The HP 15 Celeron laptop is a tier one product which is perfectly suited for first-time device owners, students, professi... |
09.12.2021 | Mondia Pay partners with Cell C to offer new digital payment option to over 16m mobile subscribers for Huawei AppGallery, MePlay services | Cell C, a leading mobile operator in South Africa, has joined forces with Mondia Pay to offer Cell C subscribers the ability to use their mobile balances to purchase apps and games available on the Huawei AppGallery, as well as to access Me... |
30.11.2021 | MTN chops data roaming charges – but be careful | - |
30.11.2021 | MTN chops data roaming charges – but be careful | MTN South Africa has taken a knife to international data roaming charges, cutting the price from R2.50/MB to 99c/MB effective immediately — that’s a 60.4% reduction. There are some caveats, though.
The price cut, which is effective immediat... |
01.05.2021 | How South Africa’s mobile virtual network operators stack up - with one clear winner | Review
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South Africa’s virtual mobile network space is complicated.
Much like loyalty programmes, it may take skill to extract full value out of some operators’ offerings.
But a comparison of several leading MVNOs in South Africa rev... |
02.10.2020 | Cell C to take part in Top Women Global Virtual Conference | Cell C has been invited to take part in this year’s Top Women Global Virtual Conference for Africa. The event has been made possible by Standard Bank partnering with TopCo Media and other organisations including, the Commission For Gender E... |
02.10.2020 | Cell C to take part in Top Women Global Virtual Conference | Cell C has been invited to take part in this year’s Top Women Global Virtual Conference for Africa. The event has been made possible by Standard Bank partnering with TopCo Media and other organisations including, the Commission For Gender E... |
04.06.2020 | SA smokers have changed their habits, according to a new survey | (Unsplash)
A new survey among 2,000 regular smokers found that almost half have now been forced to stop due to the national ban.
This is in part due to the cost: more than a quarter of lockdown smokers have to pay at least R50 more per pack... |
06.04.2020 | Cell C extends double data on All-In-One bundles | These are integrated bundles that provide Anytime Data, Any-Net and Cell C minutes in one bundle.
Until the 17th April, Cell C Pre-Paid and Top-Customers customers will receive double the allocation of data when they purchase All-In-One Bun... |
06.12.2019 | Cell C partners Explore Data Science Academy to upskill Data Scientists | South African network provider, Cell C announced on has announced that it would launch ‘Cell C Data Scientists’ in partnership with Explore Data Science Academy. The partnership will see the parties provide funding and skills development to... |
18.11.2019 | A new deal means Cell C clients can use MTN's network - for much cheaper than MTN users | Cell C concluded a network agreement with MTN, allowing its consumers to roam on MTN’s entire network.
Cell C pricing is generally lower than MTN, so this means that its clients will be able to use MTN’s network at a much lower cost.
The de... |
15.10.2019 | Interest-free loans, investment on offer in Cell C Innovation Challenge | Are you a South African with an innovative business idea relevant to the information and communications technology (ICT) sector?
Mobile network operator Cell C has in partnership with the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) launched ... |
15.10.2019 | Interest-free loans, investment on offer in Cell C Innovation Challenge | Are you a South African with an innovative business idea relevant to the information and communications technology (ICT) sector?
Mobile network operator Cell C has in partnership with the Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) launched... |
11.10.2019 | Cell C South Africa to Sell Assets over $596M Debt | Cell C, the third-biggest mobile operator is set to sell business assets over R9 billion ($596 million) debt. The Telco plans to sell its fiber-optic network and billed the customer base. It is alleged that Cell C plans to sell off part of ... |
21.02.2019 | You can get R3,000 Galaxy earphones for free - if you order the new Samsung phones online from today | YouTube/SlashLeaks
When you preorder the Samsung Galaxy S10, and S10+ devices today you can get a free pair of Galaxy Buds valued at R2,999.
Prices for the new Galaxy devices start at R18.999 in South Africa.
The devices will be available i... |
03.02.2019 | I only spend R17 on cellphone data a month – here's how I do it | (Instagram, @cellcsa)
Through Cell C’s ShoutOut WhatsApp Bundles I only spend R17 on cellphone data each month.
Cell C offers a WhatsApp bundle at R10 for 200MB, R17 for 1GB and R99 for 4GB.
It limits you to WhatsApp messages only, but you ... |
15.10.2018 | Social, streaming bundles are just the ticket | - |
18.07.2018 | The Road To Africa’s Next Tech Unicorn | In 2016, Africa Internet Group (Jumia’s former parent company) raised $493 million at a $1 billion valuation making it Africa’s first tech unicorn. Jumia comprises 10 businesses (sharing the brand name) spread across 23 African nations. The... |
04.07.2018 | A Cursory Look At Music Tech In South Africa | New age global stars like Black Coffee, Mafikizolo, Micasa, AKA and Cassper Nyovest highlight the long, intrinsic relationship South Africans have had with music. From the better-forgotten Apartheid days of the rainbow nations’ singing prot... |
22.06.2017 | Cell C’s new online reality show Hangman looking for SA’s next top innovator | Cellular provider Cell C yesterday opened entries for Hangman, a new online reality show which aims to uncover South Africa’s top innovator, with R1-million in prize money.
“Cell C’s strategic focus is around bringing relevance to the Sout... |
22.06.2017 | Cell C’s new online reality show Hangman looking for SA’s next top innovator | Cellular provider Cell C yesterday opened entries for Hangman, a new online reality show which aims to uncover South Africa’s top innovator, with R1-million in prize money.
“Cell C’s strategic focus is around bringing relevance to the South... |
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09.01.2017 | Big price hikes at Cell C | - |
18.10.2016 | Discrepancy in Cell C subscriber numbers | - |
11.07.2016 | Cell C gets more than a million MVNO customers | - |
15.10.2015 | Cell C iPhone 6s contract prices | - |
16.09.2015 | Free internet may not come free in Africa | - |
22.07.2015 | Tired of Vodacom, Telkom & MTN, so try Cell C for free | - |
16.07.2013 | South Africa’s Cell C Receives Over $570m In Loans, Equity | South African mobile operator Cell C has announced that it will receive R3.5 billion ($350 million) from majority shareholder, Oger Telecom and a further R2.2 billion ($222 million) in loans from Nedbank and Development Bank of South Africa... |
18.01.2013 | Orange To Enter South African Mobile Market | French telecommunications group, Orange, could launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service in South Africa, as part of its aggressive plans to enter the lucrative mobile market in Africa’s largest economy and other parts of the ... |
21.11.2011 | Telmap selected by Cell C to power Cell-C Xplorer, its mobile search, mapping and navigation solution | Cell-C Xplorer service is now available on BlackBerry devices
LONDON, Monday 21 November 2011, – Telmap, the original pioneers in mobile location solutions, today announces that it has been selected by Cell-C, South Africa’s third largest m... |
26.06.2011 | Cell C wins global telecoms award | “MyTools”, a groundbreaking service was awarded the Global Telecoms Business innovation award Cell C
Cell C and development partner fonYou have put South Africa’s innovation capability on the map by scooping the Global Telecoms Business Inn... |
15.02.2011 | Now you can download phone numbers from the App Store | New service from fonYou offers virtual second line on one SIM
Keeps main number private and offers Cloud-based services
Barcelona, Spain; February 15, 2011 – fonYou, a global technology company based in Barcelona, today announced the launch... |
15.02.2011 | Cell C gives customers a voice with AIRCOM’s Customer Experience Monitoring | Barcelona, Mobile World Congress, 15th February 2011 – Fastest mobile operator in South Africa Cell C has partnered with network optimisation specialists AIRCOM International to empower its customers to play a direct role in enhancing user ... |
08.04.2010 | Cornerstone OnDemand Expands Presence in Africa Through Reseller Partnership with Kalleo Learning | The companies will host complimentary business breakfasts in Johannesburg and Cape Town to discuss benefits of integrated learning and talent management strategies
LONDON and JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 8 April 2010 – Cornerstone OnDemand I... |