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Open source phone in SA

Local distributors of the Neo FreeRunner seeing strong demand for open-platform mobile phone.

Nokia announces job cuts

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Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday it is axing 330 jobs at research and development units in Finland and Denmark as it continues to struggle to cut costs.

Communication Minister’s interconnect blunders

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Siphiwe Nyanda seems to have dropped the ball on his interconnect rate cut announcement

Top Ten Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012

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Gartner has identified the top ten consumer mobile applications for 2012. Gartner listed applications based on their impact on consumers and industry players, considering revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration.

Is Nyanda too optimistic?

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The Communications Minister may well confuse interconnect rate cuts with actual retail price reductions

T-Mobile data breach

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Britain's information watchdog is investigating claims that thousands of personal details from British users of German mobile telephone giant T-Mobile have been sold to competitors.

Most popular ‘techie phones’ revealed

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Nokia strong amongst the “tech-less”, weaker amongst the “techies”

Blinded interconnect rate

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Did the Minister of Communications negotiate a worse deal for consumers than the rate suggested by MTN and Vodacom?

Mxit gives robbers away

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Two robbers were arrested after the number of a cellphone they allegedly stole was spotted by its owner on the social networking site Mxit, The Herald Online reported on Monday.

Windows Mobile's slippery slope

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iPhone and Android lead a challenge that could kill off Windows Mobile

47% Cell C tariff reduction on new package

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Cell C’s introduces Easy Chat All Day service, significantly cutting standard mobile call tariffs

Interconnect rate cuts: Some prices will come down sooner than expected

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Smaller players commit to cutting peak call rates to mobile phones, some even before interconnect rate cuts kick in.

Mobile phone sales improve

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Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed Thursday.

Huawei E5 wireless modem launched in SA

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Huawei launches its E5 HSPA modem, supporting downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps and uplink speeds of up to 5.76 Mbps