Evan Damon, Wholesale Channel Manager at Wanatel. For many years, number portability in South Africa has been more theory than practice. Businesses, particularly those using non-geographic ranges such as 0800, 086 and 087 numbers, often felt locked into their incumbent providers. The complexity of porting, the lack of co-ordination across networks and the risk of…
From smart IDs to AI hubs, digitisation can fast-track growth and close the gap with global peers like South Korea. Ghana and South Korea gained independence around the same period, and their developmental trajectories are often compared. For five centuries, Ghana has been part of the Gold Coast, and the mineral is still the country’s…
After more than three decades, AOL’s dial-up internet service is officially coming to an end. In a statement on its website, the Yahoo-owned company announced that the service will be discontinued on September 30, 2025. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: iPad Pro and VR? “AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and…
It’s many months late, but the Competition Tribunal has finally released its reasons document – or at least, a non-confidential version thereof – outlining why it decided to block Vodacom’s acquisition of a co-controlling stake in fibre operator Maziv. The tribunal last October shocked the merging parties – and the telecommunications industry – when it…
