Author: Duncan McLeod

Communications minister Faith Muthambi said in parliament on Friday that indigident households wanting a free, government-subsidised set-top box to receive digital terrestrial television

A former councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has lashed out at South Africa’s Sim card registration legislation, Rica, saying it has severely impacted ordinary

This is a turn up for the books. Telkom, through its newly formed Openserve wholesale and networks division, has announced it will peer with other operators and service providers through the neutral Internet exchange point, NAPAfrica. NAPAfrica, which is located

There’s no doubt that this is a world first! Afrikaans radio station Bok Radio and mobile specialist MVN-X will on Tuesday launch an Afrikaans-only mobile network. The network, BokSel, is a mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, similar

In the latest episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Nkosana Makate’s victory over Vodacom at the constitutional court. Also this week, local Internet service providers have come out in

Pick n Pay said on Tuesday that its online sales have surged by 38% in the past year, far outstripping group-wide turnover growth of 8,2% in the 52 weeks ended 1 March 2016. The retailer attributed the strong growth in sales at Pick n Pay Online to a “stronger range

Former MTN CEO Sifiso Dabengwa was given a R23,7m golden handshake after resigning from the telecommunications group last year. Dabengwa resigned from the company on 9 November 2015, just months after

The money MTN paid its top executive management team, including its former CEO Sifiso Dabengwa, jumped to R165,6m in the 2015 financial year. That’s an increase of 18,8% over the R139,4m it paid in 2014, driven higher by three golden

Imagine downloading 5 000 movies per second over your Internet connection. Those are the ultimate speeds being promised by a new, multibillion-rand submarine cable system that is to be built to connect South Africa and East Africa to Asia and

In this edition of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the new Africa-1 cable system and Vumatel raising more funding. Also this week, they discuss MTN’s ongoing Nigerian headache and