The South African cellular market reached a milestone of 50-milion connections at the end of 2008 – but only 68% of these represented individual users.
Tag archives: Mobile
The disintermediation of GSM operators
The disintermediation of GSM operators: Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are at serious risk of losing revenue to disruptive startups in the next 12 to 24 months.
Txt the people
Mobile marketing is in its infancy as it struggles with usability, measurement and education – yet all bets are it’s going to be big. By Herman Manson
Icasa puts mobile TV licensing on hold – Media Roundup
The Independent Communications Authority (Icasa) yesterday withdrew an invitation to operators to apply for mobile TV licences.
Berners-Lee argues for humanity connected by technology
Give the web back to the people. This is the essence of what Tim Berners-Lee, considered one of the fathers of the modern World Wide Web, said at the September 14 launch of the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C for short.
The end of the digital devide
The digital devide is no more. Rudy-Nadler Nir argues that with 74% of the world’s population using cellphones there can be no digital divide.