Author: Duncan McLeod

MTN Business and Microsoft have entered into a partnership to provide pan-African cloud computing services from the telecommunications operator’s data centres, the companies said on Thursday. The

Real progress appears to be at hand, finally, in the development by government of a rapid deployment policy for electronic communications infrastructure, which should make it easier and quicker for operators

Telkom has filed an objection at communications regulator Icasa to Multisource’s planned acquisition of iBurst and Broadlink parent Wireless Business Solutions, TechCentral has learnt. Telkom submitted

Blue Label Telecoms and retail group Edcon will develop a network of retail technology stores across South Africa. Called Edgars Connect, the companies hope to have 100 outlets opened before

Naspers’s new online video-on-demand platform ShowMax will develop original programming content, its GM, John Kotsaftis, revealed at the launch in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Kotsaftis

Naspers’s new online video-on-demand platform ShowMax will have all the seasons of Game of Thrones and other top television series and movie titles at launch. It has also been confirmed that

Blue Label Telecoms said on Monday that Cell C has enjoyed “massive” growth in the past year, while MTN has “lost a little bit of direction”. This is according to Brett Levy, co-CEO at Blue Label, which

On the same day that Naspers is set to take the wraps off its new video-on-demand service called ShowMax, another VOD player, Times Media Group’s Vidi, has claimed it’s become the first to market in

Blue Label Telecoms has reported a big jump in profits in the year ended 31 May 2015, with headline earnings per share climbing by 21% on the back of an expansion in gross margins from 7% to 7,5%

The deal between Telkom and MTN would have been good for competition in South Africa’s mobile market. That’s the view of MTN South Africa, which on Tuesday reacted to the news that Telkom had decided to walk away