Author: Duncan McLeod

Former top Vodacom executive Romeo Kumalo plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator in South Africa. The former CEO of Vodacom’s international operations is, however, tight-lipped about what the MVNO will

Sliide, a start-up that serves targeted sponsored content and advertising to users’ smartphone lock screens, is expanding from its initial market of Nigeria to South Africa, promising users free data

The courts are the last place South Africans should be negotiating the future of the information and communications technology sector, yet that is exactly what is happening, a prominent businessman

Britain’s BT Group, through its BT Global Services arm, is set to ramp up investment in sub-Saharan Africa, expanding into markets in West and East Africa as it seeks to tap into growth opportunities in the business

In this extra-length edition of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about South Africa’s spectrum mess. Also this week, they talk about First National Bank’s decision to get into the

State-owned telecommunications infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco has reported a reduced loss of R91m for the year ended 31 March 2016, a significant improvement from the loss of R245m it reported

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has hit out at communications regulator Icasa over its planned radio frequency spectrum auction, saying the regulatory authority “tends to make rules on the run”, despite the enormous

First National Bank is stepping up its foray into the mobile telecommunications industry, launching its own-branded smartphones. The low-cost but “high-quality” ConeXis X1 and A1 phones will be available

Well-known ICT and advertising industry executive Justin Spratt will join Internet ride-hailing service Uber’s business development team on 1 September, TechCentral has learnt. Spratt joins Uber from the integrated

Telecommunications group MTN has announced a new black economic empowerment scheme worth R9,9bn. News of the planned scheme, to be called MTN Zakhele Futhi, comes ahead of the November unwinding