Author: Duncan McLeod

Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to former Nasa deputy chief technologist Jim Adams about everything from the Square Kilometre Array to the search for alien

South Africa has yet another communications minister. Nomvula Mokonyane, the former minister of water affairs & sanitation, is the 10th person to hold the position in as many years. Since 2008, South Africa has had

South African organisations expect cybercrime to become the most disruptive form of economic crime in the next two years, according to new research by PwC. The sixth South African edition of the Global Economic Crime and

HMD Global, which has the global licence to make Nokia-branded phones, has launched a new flagship device, the Nokia Sirocco, which will go on sale in April. The Android Oreo-powered smartphone, which has curved Gorilla

HMD Global, the company that has the licence to make Nokia-branded phones, loves retro. The company has introduced the second “reinvented” feature phone from the classic Nokia line-up, this time taking the wraps off

Cell C will list on the stock market, possibly as soon as 24 months from now, according to the mobile operator’s CEO, Jose Dos Santos. Speaking to TechCentral this week, Dos Santos said the company has pencilled in late 2019

On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg preview what’s expected at Mobile World Congress 2018, which kicks off on Monday. What new phones are coming, and what will be the

There may be a way to resolve the spectrum impasse in South Africa, in which the big operators, MTN and Vodacom, are squaring off against government over its plans to create a wholesale open-access network and

A new report from OpenSignal, a company that specialises in wireless-coverage mapping through crowd-sourced data, shows that South Africa’s 4G/LTE coverage and speed lag behind many developed and some

Cell C has swung hard into the black, reporting a R4.1bn net profit for the 2017 financial year ended 31 December. The mobile operator, however, reported a small, “normalised” loss of R26m – effectively break-even – once