Author: Duncan McLeod

Government’s radical Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce into law many aspects of the controversial national integrated ICT policy white paper, will undermine the industry and lead to poor and inadequate

MTN has launched the first 5G trial in South Africa – and in the broader Africa – in partnership with networking equipment vendor Ericsson. Last November, the operator’s principal rival, Vodacom, said it would launch a 5G trial in

MTN on Monday took the wraps off the first 5G trial by a mobile operator in South Africa. The company was able to demonstrate throughput speeds of more than 20Gbit/s (that’s over 20 000Mbit/s!) in a controlled test environment

Stuff magazine publisher and editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak joins Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg to wrap up the biggest technology stories of 2017. Stories covered include bitcoin and cryptocurrencies; privacy

Huawei has rubbished a claim it owes R22m to Fantastic 1 Mobile, with which it partnered in 2016 to open Huawei-branded retail stores across South Africa, saying there is “no basis” to the company’s claim. The stores were

Five Huawei-branded stores have been closed after an ugly dispute over non-payment allegedly amounting to millions of rand to a local partner of the Chinese consumer electronics giant. Nisaar Ally, owner of Fantastic 1 Mobile, which

In the penultimate episode of TalkCentral for 2017, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg delve into the week’s big technology news, including Amazon Web Services’ deal with Teraco. Also this week, they look at Asher Bohbot’s

In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Sonny Fisher, founder of the Forus Holdings, a company that hopes to reinvent the financial services industry using blockchain technology. The Forus Global Digital Exchange (Forus is pronounced

Telecommunications & postal services director-general Robert Nkuna said on Tuesday that government does not want to destroy South Africa’s big telecoms operators, despite strong objections to draft legislation that the

Government has not given up on a plan to enforce network neutrality rules on South African operators, despite there being no reference to the controversial subject in the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill