Author: Duncan McLeod

MTN Group shares fell on the JSE on Friday after Africa’s largest telecommunications operator by subscribers said it was scrapping an interim dividend payment to shareholders.

The Wireless Access Providers Association warned on Thursday that millions of dollars of planned investment in television white-spaces technology in South Africa is at risk over regulatory delays.

After briefly entering the PC market in South Africa a few years ago and then beating a strategic retreat, Huawei is poised to reintroduce its MateBook laptops in the local market.

MTN Nigeria’s profit margin, measured using Ebitda, fell by two percentage points to 51.3% in the six months to June 2020, partly due to accounting changes and Covid-19.

The Black IT Forum said it will drag communications regulator Icasa to court if it doesn’t get an immediate move on with commercialising television white-spaces technology.

First National Bank is launching Virtual Card, a digital card solution built into its smartphone app that it believes will make both online and physical payments significantly safer.

EOH Holdings said in an investor update on Wednesday that it turned in a “resilient financial performance” in its third fiscal quarter and that it’s returned to a stable and cash-generative position.

Podcast | TechCentral speaks to Darren Bedford, chief development officer at Wiocc, a company originally founded to invest in the Eassy cable system along Africa’s east coast, about its growth plans.

The JSE has publicly censured listed technology services group EOH Holdings over past financial reporting errors and imposed a R7.5-million fine – R2.5-million of which is suspended for five years.

The lead independent non-executive director of EOH Holdings has resigned from the board a year after being appointed and five months after taking the lead directorship role.