Author: Duncan McLeod

Blue Label Telecoms’ planned R1.9bn acquisition of handset distributor 3G Mobile – parent of The Equipment Company – forms part of a plan by the JSE-listed company to get customers that already buy its products, including

After announcing in May that it is getting into the notebook PC business, smartphone maker Huawei has announced it will two of the three new machines in South Africa in September. The Chinese company will introduce

Andrew Fraser joins the TalkCentral regulars Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg this week to talk about everything tech (and plenty more besides). On the show, Andrew talks about his investigation into the Gupta sockpuppets

On this TechCentral podcast episode, Duncan McLeod chats to the head of digital media at MultiChoice about the future of television in South Africa. It’s a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion about how the TV

DStv will soon begin offering live streaming channels in high definition and is even mulling the possibility of offering its DStv Now streaming product as a standalone offering in future, the head of digital media at MultiChoice

Many TechCentral readers will know the name Dawie Roodt. He is chief economist at the Efficient Group and undoubtedly one of South Africa’s leading economists. Roodt gave a fascinating presentation on Wednesday

Blue Label Telecoms, the company that is in the throes of acquiring a significant minority stake in mobile operator Cell C, said on Tuesday that it plans to spend R1.9bn on a separate acquisition – of smartphone distributors 3G Mobile

Mobile operator MTN South Africa has poached Telkom’s top communications executive. Jacqui O’Sullivan has resigned from the partially state-owned telecommunications provider, where she has served as managing executive

MultiChoice parent Naspers has disclosed that it has grown the number of pay-television subscribers on its books substantially in the past year, though pressure on prices in a weak economy, coupled with

On TalkCentral this week, Vodacom breaks the 500Mbit/s mobile download barrier, Uber’s CEO quits and Liquid Telecom outlines its plans for Neotel. Plus, it seems you can now “root” your drone. Also this week, we pick our best deals