Mobility 2006: Len Pienaar – Cellphone Banking needs, challanges and solutions

ByRamon Thomas
 

 Anyone. Any Cellphone. Any network. Anywhere. Anytime! What are the needs of users and the challenge for the bank? First National Bank is the leading mobile banking provider among entry-level consumers. Len Pienaar, head of Mobile & Transact Solutions, FNB, believes that the “wireless tech evolution is inevitable” as quoted in Arthur Goldstuck’s recent book,…

Mobility 2006: Peter Searll, Are mobile South Africans techno-literate?

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 Southern Africa is populated with people often with total illiteracy-can we expect this population of techno – don’t know how to effectively use the mobile technologies at their disposal? What form of digital divide in mobile is crippling South Africa-is it complete lack of mobile knowledge or inability to effectively use such technologies? The answer…

Mobility 2006: Paris Mashile, Complexities of regulating costs for telecommunications in South Africa

ByRamon Thomas
 

 The chairperson of ICASA, Mr. Paris Mashile, addressed the opening session of the Mobility 2006 conference. Despite being accused a “loser” for delaying the introduction of mobile number portability by the current edition of Financial Mail today. His address was largely to justify state-heavy regulation within the mobile industry in favour of protecting the consumers….