Concern about Big Brother approach to Covid-19 tracking on cellphones
Through the use of geo-location, mobile technology offers a simple solution for tracing people possibly exposed to Covid-19.
Through the use of geo-location, mobile technology offers a simple solution for tracing people possibly exposed to Covid-19.
Research shows a trend back towards pure audio, versus the ubiquitous text and video-messaging or a toggled combination of all three.
Telkom is now profitable, pays a dividend and has more than halved the workforce from the 22,000 it employed when Sipho Maseko took over.
MTN fell the most in six months after Africa’s biggest mobile-phone company by sales warned that the reinstatement of economic sanctions in Iran had tied up cash in its second-biggest market while debt rose by 22 percent.
MTN’s sale of its Cyprus unit is just the start of a broader exit from small or problematic markets, with the Liberian unit leading a number of West African divisions being considered for disposal, according to people familiar with the matter.
MTN will replace some of the services provided by its cross-town rival Vodacom in a network-sharing deal with Cell C, South Africa’s third-largest mobile-phone operator.
Most of the data demand is generated by the increased use of mobile phones – Keith Webb, an Investment Banker at RMB Infrastructure Finance, shares some background.
Most cellphone fans would have played the game Snake, or been caught in a BBM war of words. But since those days, both Nokia and BlackBerry have been close to abandonment.
Cathy Buckle reflects on Zimbabwe’s recent National Shutdown Day, Wednesday 6 July. It was the day social media collapsed, but also the day the streets were deserted.
Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator has threatened to disconnect mobile subscribers it says are spreading information via WhatsApp about the protests that have rocked the country.