Author: Duncan McLeod

Concerns are growing in the telecommunications industry that government plans to abandon the nearly universal model of auctioning off precious radio frequency spectrum to private-sector operators, instead allocating it to a single wholesale provider in which

The launch this week of a smaller iPhone and a new iPad “underlines the extent to which Apple has lost the innovative edge”, according to a senior technology analyst. The new 4-inch iPhone SE, in particular, showed that Apple had lost the innovative

A mobile platform meant to help tackle unemployment in South Africa and founded by former telecommunications consultants has been crowned as the top technology start-up at an

Communications regulator Icasa has rejected all five applicants, including the Gupta-controlled Infinity Media Networks, that were seeking new free-to-air television broadcasting licences in South Africa

In what is being seen as a significant development for the digital audio broadcasting industry, LG Electronics has unveiled the world’s first smartphone that supports the DAB+ standard. Industry players hope the move by the Korean consumer electronics giant will

Technology group Altron expects to report a 90c/share headline loss in the year ended 29 February 2016, a deterioration from the loss of 3c/share reported a year ago, it warned shareholders after markets closed in Johannesburg on Monday. This compares to a headline

MTN South Africa has taken an impairment charge of R592m related to over-spending on handsets in 2015. Parent MTN Group revealed in its annual results, published on Thursday, that

MTN’s video-on-demand strategy in the South African market has not worked as expected and will now be radically overhauled. That’s the word from MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati, who was speaking

MTN’s South African subsidiary increased its profit margin, calculated using earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, by 1,3 percentage points to 33,4%, suggesting a solid turnaround in the operation, which has underperformed in recent years

Despite the hellish time it had in Nigeria in the final quarter of its 2015 financial year – facing a fine of US$3,9bn from regulators there – telecommunications group MTN has announced it is hiking its final dividend to R8,30/share, up by 3,8% on 2014’s payout.