Author: Duncan McLeod

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

E.tv has been granted leave to appeal by the high court in Pretoria, setting the stage for a legal showdown at the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein between communications minister Faith Muthambi and the free-to-air broadcaster over set-top box encryption

Multisource, backed by former top bankers Paul Harris and Michael Jordaan, plans to capitalise Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), the parent of iBurst and Broadlink, to build a 4G/LTE network

Is MTN getting dual-Sim phone religion, leaving Vodacom, the market leader, as the only operator with an aversion to such devices? It appears the operator is at least toying with the idea, announcing on Thursday that it would range the new, high-end Huawei Mate S

Liquid Telecom, the pan-African fibre telecommunications firm controlled by Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Group, has emerged as one of the principal backers of Hola Media, an aspiring South African

The Gupta-controlled Infinity Media Networks, which owns the 24-hour news channel ANN7 – broadcast on MultiChoice’s DStv pay-television platform – has applied to communications regulator

Alan Knott-Craig will step down as CEO of the not-for-profit Wi-Fi company at the end of the year in order to focus his energies on his new business, HeroTel. Current Isizwe chief operating officer Zahir Khan will take the reins from Knott-Craig on 1 January

MTN said on Tuesday after markets closed that it will proceed with the listing of MTN Zakhele, the telecommunications group’s broad-based black economic empowerment scheme, as planned this

Telkom shareholders have taken a dim view of the telecommunications operator’s earnings update for the six months ended 30 September 2015, pushing its share price sharply lower on the JSE on Tuesday. The company earlier warned shareholders that it

In the first bit of good news for MTN after what has been a week from hell for the JSE-listed telecommunications group, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the renewal and extension of its operating spectrum licences in two key spectrum bands