Author: Duncan McLeod

The number of active 4G/LTE customers on Vodacom’s South African network has increased by 88,9% in the past 12 months, the operator revealed in its interim financial results on Monday. At the end of September 2016, Vodacom had 3,6m active 4G users

Data centres are suddenly de rigueur in Africa, with new facilities being deployed across the continent as telecommunications operators and independent infrastructure providers build facilities to cater for rapidly expanding demand from African consumers

It’s podcast time. In this week’s show, the Internet in South Africa turns 25. We look back at how Mike Lawrie helped establish the first Internet protocol connection to the US. Also this week, FedGroup’s interesting new

Former Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) chairman Stephen Mncube has died, TechCentral has learnt. Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka confirmed on Friday that Mncube passed

The failure to get access to additional radio frequency spectrum is forcing MTN South Africa to spend more on its network that it otherwise would have had to. MTN South Africa interim chief technology

The department of telecommunications & postal services’s new director-general, Robert Nkuna, is going to have no time to ease gently into his new office in Hatfield, Pretoria. Indeed, he’s going to have to hit the ground running. The former councillor at

Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele on Tuesday hailed the publication of new ICT sector code for broad-based black economic empowerment, which he said would help encourage more

The amount of time the average First National Bank customer spends in a branch will fall to 86 minutes in 2016, from 100 minutes in 2015, a decline of 14% year on year, FNB Business chief information officer Peter Alkema said

A new Australian- and South African-built platform, Gather Online, hopes to help users meet other people who share their interests and passions. Led by South African-born

Wireless Business Solutions, the holding company of iBurst and Broadlink, has been ordered by the high court in Johannesburg to pay Vodacom more than R40m in interconnection fees. The court handed down the judgment in September – it has not been