Author: Duncan McLeod

Large independent cellular service provider GloCell is in play, TechCentral has learnt from well-placed industry sources. A number of companies are believed to have expressed an interest

Telkom has begun a project that will eventually take its sprawling head office campus in Centurion, near Pretoria, completely off the grid. The project, the first phase of which involves the installation

Former Datatec chief financial officer Ivan Dittrich, who left the JSE-listed global IT group in 2012 to take the same position at telecommunications group Vodacom, replacing Rob Shuter, is returning to his old job. Datatec said

Econet and subsea cable operator Seacom are courting Neotel with the view to a potential acquisition, it was reported on Tuesday. The news comes after Vodacom was forced to walk away from its R7bn plan to buy Neotel

South Africa’s Naspers, and its subsidiary MultiChoice, may soon forfeit the generic top-level domains they applied for in 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as Icann

Most companies have heard of the Internet of things, the idea that a vast network of objects, from cameras to air conditioners, can be connected to the Internet to create a vast network of controllable

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