Author: Duncan McLeod

Following Alphabet’s decision on Thursday to kill off its Loon Internet balloon start-up, Vodacom Group has said it will no longer proceed with a Loon project to deliver communications in rural Mozambique.

In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod interviews Clayton Hayward, CEO of fintech platform provider Ukheshe, about its acquisition from Mastercard of Oltio.

Eswatini – formerly Swaziland – has become the first, and possibly last, country in Africa to sign a pledge to join the outgoing Trump administration’s anti-China “Clean Network” programme.

Dimension Data is looking for a buyer for its Mweb Internet service provider business and has appointed Standard Bank to lead the sale process, TechCentral has learnt from an impeccable source.

Cell C CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson said on Thursday that the company plans to use both the Vodacom and MTN networks to provide cellular services to its customer base.

Cell C has begun the planned migration of its customers off its radio access network as it moves to shut down this infrastructure to save costs. But instead of the clients being migrated to MTN, the’re going to Vodacom.

E.tv parent eMedia Investments has filed an application to join Telkom’s lawsuit seeking an urgent interim interdict preventing communications regulator Icasa from proceeding with the spectrum auction.

A threat by Facebook to “offboard” a communications service used by the South African government from WhatsApp comes as it eyes securing direct government business of its own, it has been alleged.

GovChat founder Eldrid Jordaan is seeking urgent interim relief against Facebook at the Competition Tribunal after the social media giant allegedly threatened to pull the service off its WhatsApp platform.

Cartrack, whose shares more than doubled in value in 2020, plans to delist from the JSE and file for an initial public offering on the Nasdaq, the company announced on Thursday.