Jo’burg billing system ‘fixed by March’
Johannesburg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada has promised that the city’s notoriously problematic billing system will be fixed by March 2018. In a wide-ranging podcast interview with TechCentral on Tuesday
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Interview: Jo’burg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada
City of Johannesburg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada joins TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod in this episode of the podcast to chat about the plans to make Jo’burg a smart city. Dagada talks about the billing system crisis
Telkom bosses get millions more
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko took home total pay in the 2017 financial year of R25.9m, up 78% from R14.5m a year earlier, the company’s annual report, published on Tuesday, shows. Maseko, who took the reins at Telkom
Interview | Behind SA cryptocurrency start-up Project Ubu
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to two of the directors behind Project Ubu, a South African start-up that’s working to combine the idea of a universal basic income (but separate from government-led
TalkCentral: Ep 184 – ‘Simon says’
We’re at Mediatech Africa 2017 for this edition of the TalkCentral podcast. Show regulars Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are joined by “Mr Mediatech” Simon Robinson to chat about the event, as well
Vodacom thumbs its nose at weak SA economy
Despite weak economic conditions, Vodacom has delivered an impressive financial performance in the first quarter of its 2018 financial year, with the good numbers underpinned by robust demand for data services
The $20 phone that should have SA operators salivating
Qualcomm has built a sub-$20 4G/LTE “reference design” phone that it hopes third-party manufacturers will soon bring to the South African market. Apart from lowering the bar to access, the phone, once built by smartphone makers
The mobile broadband SA is missing out on
The allocation of large swathes of additional radio frequency spectrum to operators is key to unlocking next-generation speeds in mobile broadband to be delivered by technologies such as LTE-Advanced, LTE-Advanced
Internet access in SA: rural areas falling far behind
Internet penetration has reached 75% of the population in the Western Cape and 54.7% in Gauteng, but other, more rural provinces have fallen far behind, new research from World Wide Worx shows. The company’s Internet Access in
EOH plunges on report it calls ‘unfounded’
EOH’s share price tumbled more than 12% at one point on Tuesday as investors took fright at the resurfacing of corruption allegations involving a contract with welfare agency Sassa. The share regained some composure in the early afternoon