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SA Internet growth accelerates

The number of South African Internet users has passed the 5-million mark for the first time, finally breaking through the 10% mark in Internet penetration for the country.
This is the key finding of the Internet Access in South Africa 2010 study, conducted by World Wide Worx and jointly sponsored by Cisco. The headline data, released [...]

Interconnect cut ‘a small victory’

World Wide Worx has welcomed the announcement by the Minister of Communications that the interconnect fee that is added to the cost of calls between mobile networks will be cut, but warned that consumers must be able to see how their call costs are affected.
The independent technology market research organisation was the first to bring [...]

Cellphone overtakes PC for banking

The number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded that of people banking from their PCs in South Africa, with more than a quarter of bank customers turning to their cellphones for services ranging from informational transaction types such as balance enquiries to financial transaction types which include account payments.

This was one of [...]

Ease of Use, Quality, key to mobile business

Cellphones and other mobile devices don’t have to be cheap, as long as they are easy to use, high-quality and dependable, according to a survey of one thousand small business owners in South Africa.
This is a key finding from the Mobility 2009 research project being conducted by World Wide Worx and backed by First National [...]

Mobility 2009 reveals SA’s cellular gap

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. This is the first key finding from preliminary research conducted by World Wide Worx for its 2009 annual Mobility study, backed by First National Bank (FNB), leaders in cellphone banking [...]

DreamFields, World Wide Worx, e.tv score in Orange Farm

JOHANNESBURG:- The Dreamfields Project, which has provided more than 650 soccer teams from disadvantaged communities with complete soccer kits, returns to its roots on Wednesday, 27 May.
In partnership with World Wide Worx and e.tv, the Dreamfields Project will host a schools soccer tournament, or DreamEvent, at Orange Farm, where the project first began in 2007. [...]

New cable: 100-fold bandwidth increase

JOHANNESBURG:- The announcement today of a formal agreement for the construction of the West Africa Cable System (WACS) by all South Africa’s major telecommunications operators sets the scene for total international bandwidth capacity coming into Africa growing more than a hundredfold by the end of 2011.
The Internet Access in South Africa 2008 study, conducted by [...]

DA leads elections race on Internet

JOHANNESBURG:- An in-depth analysis of the Internet strategy of the main political parties in South Afrca’s 2009 general elections reveals that the Democratic Alliance has a substantial lead in online performance over its rivals. The African National Congress comes in a distant second, narrowly ahead of the Congress of the People. The United Democratic Movement [...]

April Fool hoaxes up by 372.5% on Internet

A new study reveals that, between 12.01am and 11.59am on April 1 2009, the number of April Fool’s Day hoaxes created by media organisations increased by approximately 372.5% over the same period in 2008. It is expected that the impact on business productivity of these hoaxes will amount to approximately 0.00567% of gross annual turnover. [...]