Author: Duncan McLeod

Duncan McLeod

Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.

Why SA Connect tender was cancelled

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The State IT Agency has finally explained why it pulled the plug on a government tender, worth up to R1,5bn, to roll out broadband to underserviced parts of the country: none of the bidders qualified. The tender was the first phase of a network

SA Connect broadband tender cancelled

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The State IT Agency (Sita) has cancelled a tender for the construction of a rural broadband network under the South Africa Connect broadband strategy. Late last week, Sita published a notice in the

MTN’s Mteto Nyati takes the fight to No 1

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It’s well known that MTN South Africa has had a torrid few years. It’s lost market share to Vodacom and Cell C, it’s suffered debilitating industrial action, its network hasn’t been up to snuff, its customer service

Don’t destroy our industry, MTN pleads

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The national integrated ICT policy white paper, approved last month by cabinet, is a threat to the telecommunications industry and must be revisited urgently because it will chase away those investing

Telkom wants to get rid of payphones

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Zero. That’s how many payphones Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko wants to retain. “If I could get to zero, I’d be very happy,” he said in an interview with TechCentral on Tuesday. Telkom currently has about 20 000 payphones on its network, down

Cell C debt to be reduced further

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Cell C will reduce its net borrowings to a maximum of R6bn – from a proposed R8bn previously – Blue Label Telecoms, which is in the throes of buying a 45% stake in the mobile operator for R5,5bn

Data must fall? Not so fast, says FMF

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The Free Market Foundation has said the #datamustfall movement, which is agitating for lower mobile data prices, has largely gone unchallenged. Yet evidence suggests that South African data prices

Vodacom to launch VOD platform

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Vodacom will launch a new video-on-demand platform early in the new year called Vodacom On Demand, which will host content from a range of content providers. As part of the planned launch

DFA to build national IoT network

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Fast-growing privately held telecommunications company Dark Fibre Africa has announced it will deploy an “Internet of things” network in South Africa in partnership with France’s Sigfox