Author: Duncan McLeod

Cell C has missed several payments to national roaming partner MTN South Africa, underscoring the dire financial straits in which the country’s third-largest mobile operator finds itself.

MTN Group’s interim financial results for the six months to June 2019 show that its South African business is under pressure as the result of new sector regulations and the weak economy.

Financially strained telecommunications operator Cell C said on Wednesday that it has finalised a term sheet for a further national roaming agreement with rival MTN South Africa.

Cell C’s board has appointed Douglas Craigie Stevenson as its permanent CEO. Craigie Stevenson had been serving in act acting capacity for the past five months following the resignation of Jose Dos Santos in March.

The Valley of a Thousand Hills near Durban will be the site of a commercial TV white-spaces pilot project. The backers hope it will prove the feasibility of using the technology to roll out low-cost Internet access to rural areas countrywide.

In the podcast this week, your hosts chat about Telkom’s plan to kill off copper – and that means DSL. Is this a good thing or not, and what does it mean for those who can’t get fibre?

You’ve probably seen, or at least heard of, the Honor brand of smartphones. This Huawei-owned marque has set its sights on rapid growth in the South African market – and worldwide.

Telkom’s copper-based digital subscriber line network is living on borrowed time. By Duncan McLeod.

EOH Holdings has renamed its ICT services business iOCO, the JSE-listed technology group said in an update to shareholders on Thursday.

MultiChoice Group executive chairman Imtiaz Patel received almost $1.5-million (about R21.4-million at the time of writing) in base salary, bonuses, pension and short-term incentives in the 2019 financial year.