Author: Duncan McLeod

The telecommunications group has received a major shake-up, which has resulted in the appointment of a new chief operating officer and the “resignation” of the CEO of its Nigerian operation. Nigerian CEO Michael Ikpoki and head of regulatory and corporate affairs

One of MTN’s very first employees, Karel Pienaar, who has been with the telecommunications group for more than two decades and who was instrumental in the founding of the business, is stepping down. Pienaar was most recently group

Altron is continuing to shed assets as it restructures its business to become as a more focused and leaner technology group. It announced on Thursday before markets opened that it has reached an agreement to dispose of subsidiary Powertech’s 75% equity stake

Video-on-demand platform FrontRow, launched earlier this by MTN in partnership with Discover Digital, has been rebranded as VU, effective 1 December, and has cut its prices to match the competition. As with FrontRow before it, MTN subscribers’ data will be zero-rated (provided free) when they stream

Altron has named Andrew Holden as the successor to Rob Abraham at its subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group. The long-serving Abraham will step down as Bytes CEO on 29 February 2016, with Holden to step in as operations executive for information technology. In recent

The theft of batteries from base stations around South Africa has become a significant problem for mobile operators, costing them into the hundreds of thousands of rand every time criminals break into a site. But operators have started fighting back with the

Amazon is ready to deliver packages to customers using drones. And it’s getting Jeremy Clarkson to tell you – and the regulators who need to approve the technology – all about it. Clarkson, a former co-host of the hit BBC motoring show Top Gear (he was fired for punching a producer), signed a

Neotel’s chief financial officer, Steven Whiley, has resigned. Whiley was suspended from the telecommunications operator in July, along with CEO Sunil Joshi, over allegations of bribery related to a multibillion-rand contract at Transnet. In a tersely worded statement on Friday, Neotel said

The Democratic Alliance has released its annual cabinet report card, and the two ICT ministers, Faith Muthambi at communications and Siyabonga Cwele at telecommunications & postal services, have been given very poor grades. Muthambi emerged with the DA’s lowest

Creative Spark, the Cape Town-based digital agency founded by Matthew Buckland, has been acquired by M&C Saatchi for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition includes Creative Spark’s digital publishing arm, whose titles include Memeburn, Ventureburn and Gearburn