Author: Duncan McLeod

Microsoft has officially launched two Azure cloud data centres in South Africa, one in Cape Town and the other in Johannesburg, after the software giant missed an earlier deadline of December 2018 to take the facilities live.

In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, we speak to Philip Haslam, one of the people behind ZimboCash, a company that is building an alternative national currency for the troubled Zimbabwean economy.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about some of the highlights from MWC 2019, including Huawei’s foldable phone and Energizer’s insane battery phone.

Liquid Telecom is giving serious thought to leveraging its spectrum asset in the 3.5GHz band, which happens to be ideally suited to the roll-out of next-generation 5G mobile broadband technology.

MTN South Africa has implemented new data rollover, transfer and out-of-bundle features to comply with Icasa’s new data regulations and has said it won’t charge users for data rollover.

German software giant SAP and EOH affiliate company Twenty Third Century Systems have been accused of bribery to secure a multimillion-dollar software contract in Tanzania.

Liquid Telecom said on Thursday that MTN South Africa will roam on its soon-to-be-launched 4G/LTE network. MTN will be Liquid Telecom’s first customer on the network.

Cell C spent R523.9-million acquiring programming and movie rights for its Black video-streaming platform in the 2018 financial year, the mobile operator has revealed.

Cell C reported a total comprehensive loss for the 2018 financial year of R1.3-billion, a filing on shareholder Blue Label Telecoms’ website on Thursday shows. The results are preliminary and unaudited.

Cell C has appointed its chief operating officer, Douglas Craigie Stevenson, as interim CEO following the departure of Jose Dos Santos.