Author: Duncan McLeod

Communications regulator Icasa has published a discussion document on “dynamic and opportunistic spectrum management”, a precursor to crafting regulations that will govern the use of television white-spaces spectrum in South Africa. TV white spaces

South African media and technology giant Naspers on Friday morning announced it is upping its stake in Russian classifieds platform Avito from 17,4% to 67,9% in a deal valued at a whopping US$1,2bn (about R16bn). In a statement, Naspers said it invested initially

An analysis of MTN’s third quarter results, published on Thursday, show the telecommunications group’s South Africa operation may finally be putting its weak performance of recent years behind it. However, it’s still struggling to grow its post-paid subscriber base

Vumatel, the telecommunications start-up challenging Telkom’s dominance of fixed-line broadband in some of Johannesburg’s upmarket suburbs, has announced it is expanding its network to five new areas

There has always been something a little special about Sony’s Xperia Z line-up. The smartphones have always exuded style, both in terms of hardware design and the work Sony has done to create an

Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has announced a new government procurement website and other measures aimed at making it more efficient for the state to procure good and services. In his medium-term

isted technology group Adapt IT has announced it will acquire specialist software firm CQS Investments for R216,8m. CQS Investments is a 20-year-old company with 4 000 clients. It develops its own software and distributes software developed by third-party companies CaseWare

Fast-growing listed technology services company EOH has announced it has acquired Mehleketo Resourcing, which employs 350 people and has a turnover of R300m/year. The value of the acquisition

Any Internet service provider that is worried that Telkom’s newly spun-off wholesale and network services arm, Openserve, will provide unfair advantages to the telecommunications operator’s retail arm is welcome, at any time, to come and study the company’s books

In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, podcast hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Telkom’s decision to create Openserve. Also on the show this week, we chat about technology shares on the JSE – and one or two non-tech shares, too – and talk about the idea (good or bad?) of a national open-access wireless network