Vodacom breaks South African Mobile Web Experience

Vodacom tried an interesting move and pre-format Web pages for their subscribers’ cellphones in South Africa. Unfortunately they like everybody else ran into problems by transforming Web Content into Mobile Content.

The results are quite funny and it’s amazing that companies like Vodacom don’t fully test the system. The South African Internet Society statet the following:

““Various applications that include instant messaging, banking, specialised mobile applications such as e-mail, YouTube, Twitter, Fring and at least a dozen others, are no longer working,”

June 29, 2008





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