Author: Duncan McLeod

Telkom has revealed plans to re-farm half of its spectrum in the 1,8GHz band for 4G/LTE services as it bets on data rather than voice as the big growth driver in mobile services. The company’s CEO, Sipho Maseko

Vodacom and Cell C have been at each other’s throats again in front of the Advertising Standards Authority, this time over a claim by Cell C that it was the first to introduce Wi-Fi calling in South Africa. In this instance, the authority

Your Internet service provider could soon be providing more than just your broadband digital subscriber line service. Telkom has revealed that it will soon offer not only wholesale

Despite reporting a further 6,5% decline in the number of fixed lines in service to just 3,2m, Telkom has declared that it has completed a three-year turnaround strategy and is now ready for growth. This comes as it reports a 15,5% increase in

Telkom pumped R757m into fibre-to-the-home broadband infrastructure in the year ended 31 March 2016, an increase of 200% over the R252m it spent in the 2015 financial year. The spend on FTTH outstripped the company’s

Given the amount of capital South Africa’s big mobile operators are pouring into their networks – well over R20bn between them this year alone – one could be forgiven for thinking the industry isn’t facing the serious headwinds many are predicting in the

In the wake of Vodacom’s decision to close down its M-Pesa mobile money service in South Africa at the end of this month, a pioneer of mobile financial services for the mass market, Brian Richardson, CEO of Wizzit International, has

Former Altech CEO and Altron TMT group executive Craig Venter was given a R15m “separation payment” when he left the technology group last year, despite poor performance by several of

Despite a supreme court of appeal judgment on Tuesday, which set aside a 2015 amendment to South Africa’s broadcasting migration policy, the communications minister, Faith Muthambi, has vowed to press on with the digital terrestrial television migration

E.tv has won the latest battle in the long-running war over digital terrestrial television in South Africa, potentially throwing the long-delayed project off-track once again. The supreme court