Author: Duncan McLeod

Samsung Electronics in South Africa contracted a third party to destroy all Galaxy Note7 devices, which had to be recalled from the channel just hours before they were due to go on sale locally, according to a company

Head of mobile at Samsung in Southern Africa Craige Fleischer sat down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod to talk about the launch of the company’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, in South Africa. The

Newly appointed Altron CEO Mteto Nyati has spoken out against “radical economic transformation”, warning that in the short term politicians will use it to convince people that it will benefit them, while in the long

Just a month after TechCentral’s podcast with former Altron CEO Robbie Venter, Duncan McLeod returns to the group’s Parktown, Johannesburg head office to interview new CEO, and former MTN South Africa boss

This is the third podcast in a TechCentral series on information security. The focus in this interview, with HID Global vice president Greg Sarrail, is on biometric technologies. Though the focus of the interview is on

Although Cell C supports government’s idea of a national wholesale open-access network (Woan), communications regulator Icasa should not wait any longer to allocate spectrum in the 2,6GHz band. That’s the view of the mobile

Communications regulator Icasa should cut mobile termination rates to zero, Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos said on Friday. Speaking in a wide-ranging podcast interview with TechCentral (to be published

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