Author: Duncan McLeod

Moya, an instant messaging and payments app developed in South Africa, has notched up 6.5 million monthly active users and now has market leader WhatsApp firmly in its sights.

Corporate clients and other stakeholders have banded together to save the Sigfox IoT network in South Africa, with an agreement expected soon.

New research from Ookla shows that MTN is South Africa’s fastest mobile network by some margin, followed by Vodacom and Telkom.

Global telecommunications carriers now have an alternative route for international network traffic thanks to a new fibre link that cuts straight through the centre of Africa.

Telkom has asked Icasa for additional spectrum in the 2.3GHz band – and the company is willing to give up its holdings at 2.4GHz to make it happen.

Exclusive | Vantage Data Centers’ Antoine Boniface spoke to TechCentral about why the company is investing $1-billion on a massive data centre campus in Johannesburg.

Manelisa Mavuso has been appointed as MD of Mweb with immediate effect after parent Dimension Data decided against selling the business.

Exclusive | Wireless broadband operator Rain has sprung to Icasa’s defence in the communications regulator’s legal showdown with Telkom over temporary spectrum.

Vodacom has filed court papers in support of an application aimed at stopping communications regulator Icasa from taking back temporarily assigned spectrum.

MTN has filed papers in the high court seeking to stop Icasa from taking back temporary spectrum at the end of November, joining Telkom in taking legal action.