Author: Duncan McLeod

Plans to build a superfast submarine broadband cable connecting South Africa and countries in the Middle East, South-Central Asia and Europe, are forging ahead, according to reports.

In the first TalkCentral podcast of 2019, show hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg digest Apple’s revenue warning and ask where the company is headed this year and beyond.

Altron’s continued turnaround, under the leadership of CEO Mteto Nyati, delivered the best performance among technology shares listed on the JSE in 2018, TechCentral’s annual review of the sector shows.

TechCentral’s podcasts had a barnstorming 2018, more than doubling downloads compared to 2017, as more and more South Africans adopted the format for media consumption.

Shares in MTN Group rose as much as 8.2% on Thursday morning after the JSE-listed telecommunications operator said it had reached a favourable settlement with Nigeria’s central bank.

Christmas has come early for MTN Group. The telecommunications operator’s shares are likely to soar when markets reopen on Thursday in Johannesburg after it announced it has settled a multibillion-dollar dispute in Nigeria.

Liquid Telecom South Africa plans to spend billions of rand building a national 4G/LTE network in South Africa, and it will offer wholesale roaming services to other operators from early 2019, it said on Friday.

The labour court has issued an order, with the consent of ex-Vodacom exployees, to enforce their restraints of trade after reports emerged in November that they were working with rival MTN South Africa.

In this bumper year-end edition of the podcast, Nafisa Akabor joins Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg for a review of the year that was, including our picks of the best smartphones, gadgets and TV series of 2018.

In a major coup for stock exchange upstart A2X Markets, Naspers plans to list on the new South African bourse.