Author: Duncan McLeod

A national wholesale open-access network, as proposed in government’s ICT policy white paper, is the way to bring down the price of broadband in South Africa. However, the white paper has problems that, if not

Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg are back for another opinionated slice of technology analysis (plus some politics – it’s been quite a week). In this week’s show: the Samsung Galaxy S8 unveiled

MTN’s interim group executive chairman, Phuthuma Nhleko, took home more than R72m in the 2016 financial year, during which time he acted as CEO and as chairman of the crisis-hit emerging markets telecommunications

Do you practise safe computing? Are you safe online? Chances are you don’t and you aren’t. Dominic White is chief technology officer at SensePost and one of the top experts on information security in South

In the first of several TechCentral podcast interviews diving into cybersecurity issues, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Jacques Louw, director and head of cyber defence at MWR InfoSecurity in South Africa

On TalkCentral this week, Ster-Kinekor’s old website allegedly leaked almost 7m users’ account details – we speak to the Durban-based software developer, Matt Cavanagh, who exposed a major security flaw in the

One of the ANC discussion documents, published at the weekend ahead of the party’s national policy conference to be held from 30 June to 5 July 2017, has warned that efforts to license competition to DStv parent

Cell C is interested in reaching a deal soon to allow its customers to roam not only on Vodacom’s 2G and 3G networks – as they do now when they are outside the bigger towns and metropolitan areas

EOH is nothing if not consistent. The JSE-listed technology services company has again turned in a strong set of financial results, with headline earnings per share rising by 22% on the back of revenue that climbed by 21% to R7,2bn

Cell C has posted a net profit of R540m for the year ended 31 December 2016, from a net loss in 2015 of R5,6bn, on the back of strong customer growth. South Africa’s third largest mobile operator by subscribers