Despite the fact that it is now a large technology services company that employs 10 000 people, JSE-listed EOH continues to grow as if it’s still a young business. For the year ended 31 July 2015, it has reported a 29% improvement in headline earnings per share and hiked its dividend by
Author: Duncan McLeod
The Altech Node will soon be no more. TechCentral has established that Altron is going to pull the plug on the service after failing to sell the business to a third party. Altron subsidiary Altech launched the Node to great fanfare in 2014
MTN said on Tuesday that it has earmarked R1,2bn for network upgrades in KwaZulu-Natal, including the operator’s first fibre-to-the-home deployment in the densely populated coastal province
Telkom has announced it will launch fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband in 25 additional areas by the end of the month. It claims to have the largest “open access” home fibre network in the country, with FTTH coming to additional suburbs in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban
In the latest episode of South Africa’s leading technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Apple’s September keynote. Also this week, they discuss Telkom’s planned million-home fibre roll-out, Icasa’s spectrum auction
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has moved closer to traders and to other world markets with the installation, by Dark Fibre Africa, of a direct fibre link between the bourse’s head office in Sandton and Teraco’s data centre in Isando, east of Johannesburg. The 32km
In a sign that South Africa is finally getting ready to license spectrum for next-generation wireless broadband services, communications regulator Icasa has published an “information memorandum” to provide prospective applicants with details of the process and criteria
The South African economy may be teetering on the brink of a recession, but that isn’t keeping the country’s telecommunications operators from ramping up their capital spending. Telkom, Vodacom, MTN and Cell C, along with a host of smaller players, are all gearing up to make
South Africa is set to become the first country outside the US to offer Seagate’s new storage cloud solution when it is launched later this month by the American company’s local partner, Sithabile Technology Services. Seagate Storage Cloud will be hosted at Teraco
MTN has just upped the ante in the developing war with rival video-on-demand operators by announcing that it will zero-rate data usage for those streaming content on its FrontRow service. The