Author: Duncan McLeod

Internet connectivity to and from South Africa and much of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa was undermined severely on Thursday after two cable systems experienced significant problems. Seacom, the cable system which runs along Africa’s east coast

Far from the personal computing era being over, young consumers – those between 18 and 24 – are the most pro-PC of all age groups in 2016 and are “very unlikely” to abandon the PC as a platform. This is a key finding in Deloitte Global’s new TMT Predictions 2016 report

MTN could be forced to cough up as much as R1,5bn to Cameroonian authorities after a special anti-corruption commission, known as Conac, found that the operator, along with rival Orange, owed nearly R2,8bn in taxes and royalties to the government

Applications have closed for a new accelerator programme for financial technology start-ups based in Cape Town and backed by Barclays Africa and US accelerator Techstars, with nearly 400 companies from around the world applying to take part

MTN’s Nigerian operation is likely to report a profit after tax of approximately R15,9bn for the year ended 31 December 2015, it was revealed on Tuesday. The JSE-listed telecommunications operator, which is facing a R65,2bn fine from Nigerian authorities for failing to disconnect 5m

Everyone is aware of South African IT success stories Dimension Data and Datatec, both which are now multibillion-dollar businesses serving clients in markets across the world. Now another technology company

In the first episode of the TalkCentral podcast for 2016, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Netlflix’s arrival in South Africa and its threat to block those using virtual private networking technology to access the US version

If government decides to get serious about SA Connect, its wide-ranging broadband policy published two years ago, it will result in one of the largest telecommunications projects ever embarked upon

South Africans who use virtual private networking services to watch the US version of Netflix could soon find their access blocked. Netflix vice-president of content delivery architecture David Fullagar warned in a post on the subscription video-on-demand

Parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications & postal services has set aside a full day later this month to probe so-called “over the top” (OTT) services to determine whether policy interventions are required to govern them. OTT services include the likes