Author: Duncan McLeod

MTN Nigeria has published strong maiden results as a listed company, with operating margins expanding significantly on the back of good service revenue growth.

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko earned total remuneration of R23.2-million in the 2019 financial year, down from R27.2-million in 2018, mainly as a result of fewer shares that vested to him in the period.

City Power, which provides electricity to the City of Johannesburg, has been hit by a ransomware virus that has crippled its systems.

Vodacom reported a 1.2% year-on-year decline in service revenue in South Africa in the three months to end-June, with the company blaming new data regulations from Icasa and a switch in roaming partners.

South Africa is expected to be the fourth fastest-growing major IT market in the world in 2019, according to new research from consultancy Gartner.

The department of communications & digital technologies was meant to publish the policy direction on the assignment of broadband spectrum in South Africa last Friday, but failed to do so.

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Vumatel’s plans to roll out fibre broadband in Mitchell’s Plain and Alexandra. Can fibre be delivered to lower-income and even poor areas profitably?

Bob van Dijk received almost R1.9-billion in salary, incentives, and vested share options and shares appreciation rights in the year to March 2019, a regulatory filing published on Friday shows.

MTN Group has hired another top executive from Vodacom Group, saying on Wednesday that is has appointed Yolanda Cuba as its new chief digital and fintech officer.

Seacom, which built the first subsea broadband cable along Africa’s east coast 10 years ago, is interested in acquiring capacity in Google’s new, high-capacity Equiano cable along the west coast to Europe.