Author: Duncan McLeod

Duncan McLeod is editor of TechCentral.

Multisource, backed by former top bankers Paul Harris and Michael Jordaan, plans to capitalise Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), the parent of iBurst and Broadlink, to build a 4G/LTE network

Is MTN getting dual-Sim phone religion, leaving Vodacom, the market leader, as the only operator with an aversion to such devices? It appears the operator is at least toying with the idea, announcing on Thursday that it would range the new, high-end Huawei Mate S

Liquid Telecom, the pan-African fibre telecommunications firm controlled by Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Group, has emerged as one of the principal backers of Hola Media, an aspiring South African

The Gupta-controlled Infinity Media Networks, which owns the 24-hour news channel ANN7 – broadcast on MultiChoice’s DStv pay-television platform – has applied to communications regulator

Alan Knott-Craig will step down as CEO of the not-for-profit Wi-Fi company at the end of the year in order to focus his energies on his new business, HeroTel. Current Isizwe chief operating officer Zahir Khan will take the reins from Knott-Craig on 1 January

MTN said on Tuesday after markets closed that it will proceed with the listing of MTN Zakhele, the telecommunications group’s broad-based black economic empowerment scheme, as planned this

Telkom shareholders have taken a dim view of the telecommunications operator’s earnings update for the six months ended 30 September 2015, pushing its share price sharply lower on the JSE on Tuesday. The company earlier warned shareholders that it

In the first bit of good news for MTN after what has been a week from hell for the JSE-listed telecommunications group, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the renewal and extension of its operating spectrum licences in two key spectrum bands

Telkom has warned shareholders that it expects its headline earnings per share for the six months ended 30 September 2015 to be as much as 85% lower than the same period a year ago, though when normalised, the figure could be as much as 15% higher. The discrepancy

The JSE has suspended trading in MTN shares with immediate effect. The halt in trading comes after the share price went on a rollercoaster ride on Monday morning following reports in the