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  Vodacom and some of the biggest names in technology have teamed up with the Department of Education in South Afri webapex.net ca to launch a multi-million rand scheme. The mobile operator has collaborated with Microsoft, Cisco and Mindset Learn to form the Vodacom Mob westernmagazine.org ile Education Programme to establish nine information and communications technology (ICT) centres, each serving 200 schools. The programme, costing R20 million, will provide underserviced and underprivileged school ysin.org s with access to educational material using cloud computing services. Statistics from the department indicate that just 7 percent of schools in South Africa have a stocked library and only 10 percent have sufficient computers. “This venture has a particular eye on ICT as an enabler, it’s really to provide connectivity and access and to allow teachers to be able to utilise ICT in a way that enhance...

  revisit this story from September. Vodacom are clamping down on users taking full advantage of the unlimited BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) for causin find g congestion on its network. BIS has been a big hit on South Africa as it of house fers unlimited browsing and email access on BlackBerry smartphones for a fixed cost per month. Vodacom says that the heaviest users will be provided with lower connection speeds due to its study that found that “more than 95 percent of BlackBerry data usage was attributable to less than 5 percent of user business s”, causing congestion at peak times. Defending the move, Chief Technology Officer Andries Delport said that Vodacom must “ensure that all BlackBerry users are able to enjoy the service that they pay for”. The 5 percent of BIS users deemed to be “abusing the service” (by reaching 100MB data usage for the month) will have their connection speed reduced from 3G to 2G levels. “When we realised that such a small...

  rev usatimes.cc isit this story from September. Vodacom are clamping down on users taking full advant usanews.cc age of the unlimited BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) for causing congestion on its network. BIS has been a big hit on South Africa news as it offers unlimited browsing and email access on BlackBerry smartphones for a fixed cost per month. Vodacom says that the heaviest users will be provided with lower connection speeds due to its study that found that “more than 95 percent of BlackBerry data usage was attributable to less than 5 percent of users”, causing congestion at peak times. Defending the move, Chief Technology Officer Andries Delport said that Vodacom must “ensure that all BlackBerry users are able to enjoy the service that they pay for”. The 5 percent of BIS users deemed to be “abusing the service” (by reaching 100MB data usage for the month) will have their connection speed reduced from 3G to 2G levels. “When we realised that such a...

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