We have been expecting some market strangeness thanks to the lovely chap spending time in everyone’s heads these day: COVID-19. Expectation has become reality now, as the number-crunchers over at Strategy Analytics have got figures for us concerning smartphone shipments in February 2020. It’s… not fantastic.
Late last year South African mobile service operators Vodacom and MTN were instructed to drop the prices of… well, everything from calls to data. They were given 60 days in order to do so and as of today, those 60 days are up.
In 2019, it’s not the technology that matters – it’s the thinking behind it. Disruptive technologies that once seemed revolutionary…