Author: Duncan McLeod

One of the ANC discussion documents, published at the weekend ahead of the party’s national policy conference to be held from 30 June to 5 July 2017, has warned that efforts to license competition to DStv parent

Cell C is interested in reaching a deal soon to allow its customers to roam not only on Vodacom’s 2G and 3G networks – as they do now when they are outside the bigger towns and metropolitan areas

EOH is nothing if not consistent. The JSE-listed technology services company has again turned in a strong set of financial results, with headline earnings per share rising by 22% on the back of revenue that climbed by 21% to R7,2bn

Cell C has posted a net profit of R540m for the year ended 31 December 2016, from a net loss in 2015 of R5,6bn, on the back of strong customer growth. South Africa’s third largest mobile operator by subscribers

Rapidly expanding data centre operator Teraco has raised a R1,2bn medium-term funding facility from Absa, allowing it to complete its new facility in Isando, east of Johannesburg, while also investing in its new, nearby data centre at

MTN Group’s new CEO, Rob Shuter, begins work on Monday morning, taking the reins from interim executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko at a time of considerable operational challenges at Africa’s biggest telecommunications operator. Shuter, until

Outgoing MTN interim executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko, whose last day as effective interim CEO is on Friday before his replacement, new group CEO Rob Shuter, starts work on Monday, has urged government to be cautious

TechCentral’s editor, Duncan McLeod, sat down with outgoing MTN group interim executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko on Friday to talk about the past, present and future of the telecommunications giant. Friday is Nhleko’s last day as, in effect, interim

On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about television streaming. First, MultiChoice is talking up DStv Now, adding Chromecast support and hinting at a standalone streaming option

MultiChoice is giving serious consideration to the launch a standalone streaming version of DStv, not delivered via direct-to-home satellite but offered exclusively over broadband connections and not