Author: Duncan McLeod

ICT industry veteran Brian Seligmann was killed in a freak accident on Sunday. Seligmann, who was an early pioneer of Apple computers in South Africa, apparently died after being electrocuted while mowing the lawn outside

Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to Cell C chief strategy officer Robert Pasley and chief legal officer Graham Mackinnon about the Electronic Communications Amendment

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about government’s workshop on the Electronic Communications Act and the planned wholesale open-access network. Also this week, a look at MTN’s

In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod sits down with BCX CEO Ian Russell to talk about the company’s strategy following Telkom’s R2.7bn acquisition of the IT services provider. Russell talks about the

Vodacom and MTN should not be given any additional exclusive-use broadband spectrum to expand their networks, despite the two operators increasingly running up against network constraints, Telkom said in

I must admit I’m a little surprised by Telkom’s call this week at a high-stakes government workshop for all unassigned broadband spectrum to be allocated to a single wholesale network provider. I’m surprised because Sipho Maseko

Social media giant Facebook has joined the chorus of criticism of government’s Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, warning in a submission to the department of telecommunications & postal services that

Government must trust the free market to drive down prices and not create a new infrastructure monopoly by giving all unassigned broadband spectrum to a new wholesale operator. That’s the message from MTN

The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is the telecommunications’ industry’s mining charter, Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub warned at a government workshop on the bill in Pretoria on Tuesday. He was

Communications regulator Icasa on Tuesday blasted various aspects of government’s Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, warning, among other things, that the draft legislation falls foul of the