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
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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.
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 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
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
This is a special edition of TalkCentral recorded on Monday, 14 November 2016. At Vodacom’s results presentation for the six months to 30 September 2016, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with the group’s CEO
The number of active 4G/LTE customers on Vodacom’s South African network has increased by 88,9% in the past 12 months, the operator revealed in its interim financial results on Monday. At the end of September 2016, Vodacom had 3,6m active 4G users
Data centres are suddenly de rigueur in Africa, with new facilities being deployed across the continent as telecommunications operators and independent infrastructure providers build facilities to cater for rapidly expanding demand from African consumers
It’s podcast time. In this week’s show, the Internet in South Africa turns 25. We look back at how Mike Lawrie helped establish the first Internet protocol connection to the US. Also this week, FedGroup’s interesting new
Former Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) chairman Stephen Mncube has died, TechCentral has learnt. Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka confirmed on Friday that Mncube passed
The failure to get access to additional radio frequency spectrum is forcing MTN South Africa to spend more on its network that it otherwise would have had to. MTN South Africa interim chief technology