Author: Duncan McLeod

A home-grown cellphone brand, AG Mobile, which offers low-cost handsets into the mass market, is starting to challenge the big-name brands for dominance of the South African market. AG Mobile, an

Vodacom is in talks with Netflix and other local and international video-on-demand players with a view to them utilising the company’s billing infrastructure to provide consumers with flat-rate

MTN Group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa has lost his job. Dabengwa will leave MTN with immediate effect, MTN said in a statement to shareholders early on Monday morning. His exit – which MTN is describing as a resignation

In a hard-hitting statement, MTN’s largest shareholder, the Public Investment Corp, has “noted” the resignation of group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa but said that “a lot more people need to take

South Africa’s biggest mobile network Vodacom wants a regulatory approach to data-driven over-the-top applications such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp. WhatsApp has grown to over 10m

Pay-television operator On Digital Media, which owns StarSat (formerly TopTV), has won a significant victory at communications regulator Icasa that will allow the company finally to emerge

Telkom has confirmed one of the telecommunications industry’s worst-kept secrets: that it is in talks to buy Cell C. “Telkom is currently performing a due diligence on Cell C,” the company said in a statement to shareholders issued before markets opened on Monday morning

Vodacom’s group data revenues grew by more than a third in the past year, helping lift total revenue by 6,4% in the six months ended 30 September 2015. Group active subscribers increased by 6,8% to 65,1m in the same period. Strongest growth came from

MTN’s week began as badly as it had the week before – for the second Monday on the trot, it was greeted by a plunging share price. This time it was sold down by as much as 10% on the back of

Vast Networks, billed as Africa’s first open-access Wi-Fi infrastructure operator, plans big expansion in the coming years as it looks first to consolidate the networks it’s inherited and then expand