Author: Duncan McLeod

Telkom dropped a bombshell on South Africa’s telecommunications industry this week when it said it was approaching the Competition Tribunal to object to Vodacom’s roaming agreements with Rain. But why?

Telkom-owned IT services company BCX has initiated a section 189 process under the Labour Relations Act that will see further retrenchments at the company.

Telkom has approached the Competition Tribunal, seeking to have the spectrum arrangements between Vodacom and Rain declared a merger and therefore notifiable in terms of the Competition Act.

Nic Rudnick, the group CEO of Liquid Telecom, sees a future for the company beyond simply providing wholesale and retail connectivity. He wants to reimagine Liquid as a technology solutions company.

Five hours after TechCentral broke the news on Tuesday morning that JSE-listed Alviva Holdings is in talks to buy rival Tarsus, the company has confirmed a deal is in the offing.

South Africa’s largest technology distribution group, JSE-listed Alviva Holdings, is in talks to acquire rival Tarsus, well-placed sources have told TechCentral.

Shares in Adapt IT, a software group listed on the JSE, have leapt by 165.5% in the past fortnight, demonstrating there are still ways for investors to profit from the local market, even in a depressed economic environment.

South Africa has proposed the radical relaxation of rules over foreign ownership in local broadcasters as well as the scrapping of restrictions that prevent cross-ownership of broadcasting services.

Podcast | South Africa has a new standard for electrical sockets and plugs. Inventor Gianfranco Campetti has been intimately involved in the process of developing what is known as SANS 164-2. He talks to TechCentral.

The high court in Lesotho has granted Vodacom an interim order preventing the country’s telecommunications regulator from revoking the company’s operating licence and imposing a R134-million fine.