Despite weak economic conditions, Vodacom has delivered an impressive financial performance in the first quarter of its 2018 financial year, with the good numbers underpinned by robust demand for data services
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Qualcomm has built a sub-$20 4G/LTE “reference design” phone that it hopes third-party manufacturers will soon bring to the South African market. Apart from lowering the bar to access, the phone, once built by smartphone makers
The allocation of large swathes of additional radio frequency spectrum to operators is key to unlocking next-generation speeds in mobile broadband to be delivered by technologies such as LTE-Advanced, LTE-Advanced
Internet penetration has reached 75% of the population in the Western Cape and 54.7% in Gauteng, but other, more rural provinces have fallen far behind, new research from World Wide Worx shows. The company’s Internet Access in
EOH’s share price tumbled more than 12% at one point on Tuesday as investors took fright at the resurfacing of corruption allegations involving a contract with welfare agency Sassa. The share regained some composure in the early afternoon
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former Business Connexion chief technology officer Andy Brauer, who has struck out on his own with a new
Vumatel, one of the earliest and now largest players in the South African fibre-to-the-home broadband market, has agreed to buy a big portion of Link Africa’s home fibre infrastructure. In a letter to customers
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats via Skype to Sam Paddock, co-founder and CEO of GetSmarter, the Cape Town-based online education specialist that has just been acquired
Sam Paddock, the co-founder and CEO of Cape Town-based online education company GetSmarter, which has just been acquired by Nasdaq-listed 2U for US$103m (about R1.3bn), believes South African start-ups often
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg dissect the crisis facing SAP in South Africa and analyse how it’s managed things so far (short version: not terribly well). Also this week, why