Author: Duncan McLeod

MTN South Africa has expressed concern about government’s plans for allocating new spectrum for 4G/LTE networks, saying the wrong policy risks undermining one of the few sectors in South Africa that is

Troubled technology group Altron has reported a 75c normalised diluted headline loss per share for the 2016 financial year to 29 February, a sharp reversal from headline earnings per share in 2015 of 99c. In light of the poor numbers, and the need

Google has used its developer conference, I/O 2016 in San Francisco, to take the wraps off Google Home, a new hardware device, similar to Amazon’s Echo, that allows users to have natural-language

Drive along the R24 freeway from Johannesburg to OR Tambo International, and just past the Barbara Road offramp, on the right-hand side, the sky is filled with cranes. The massive

Vodacom South Africa has identified three big growth drivers for the coming years, and only one is directly related to its core business of mobile communications. Vodacom CEO Shameel

Vodacom has launched a commercial LTE-Unlicensed, or LTE-U, site using unlicensed spectrum in the 5,8GHz band in a section of Sandton City, a large shopping centre in Johannesburg. However, even

South Africa is falling behind in broadband roll-out and access because of delays in allocating access to additional radio frequency spectrum bands to mobile operators, Vodacom warned on Monday. “Due to the country’s dependency on mobile

Strong demand for data services, underpinned by an aggressive investment in 3G and 4G/LTE network infrastructure, has led to a strong performance by Vodacom in the financial year ended 31 March 2016, results published on

Former Altech CEO Craig Venter, who quit the Altron group last year after 27 years working for the business started by his father Bill Venter, has lifted the lid on his new venture. The new company, ClickaBet, is a sports betting website that Venter

Large independent cellular service provider GloCell is in play, TechCentral has learnt from well-placed industry sources. A number of companies are believed to have expressed an interest