Author: Duncan McLeod

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has sounded a warning over Cell C’s debts and its ability to repay them, and has said this could trigger a downgrade in the mobile operator’s long-term rating of B-. Such a downgrade, if it were to happen, could affect Cell C’s

Fast-growing telecommunications infrastructure company Dark Fibre Africa, which until now has focused mainly on deploying national and metropolitan fibre links, has announced it intends

Microsoft will launch Windows 10 on 29 July, the company’s executive vice-president of operating systems, Terry Myerson, said in a blog post on Monday. The operating system, which will be

It’s been a year since President Jacob Zuma shocked South Africa’s communications technology industry by announced he was splitting the department of communications in two, creating a new department of communications and, reversing the trend of

New pay-television licensee Siyaya TV has rubbished claims by SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng that the public broadcaster has secured the rights to broadcast Bafana Bafana soccer

MTN has rubbished talk that any of the company’s clients have been disconnected by disgruntled workers, describing such suggestions as a “classic disinformation campaign”. Reports of alleged disconnections started surfacing early on Thursday

Altron-owned cellular service provider Altech Autopage has moved to allay customer concerns about plans to sell the business’s subscriber base to South Africa’s mobile operators. In a statement on Thursday, Autopage MD Boyd Chislett said the company’s

Total voice minutes carried by MTN South Africa soared by 137% in the 12 months ended 30 April 2015, the telecommunications group revealed on Wednesday. This comes after aggressive price

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has “noted with disgust” media reports on the removal of three SABC board members in terms of which she has been accused by a parliamentary legal team of

Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp has announced plans to invest in South Africa with the establishment of an office in Johannesburg that will service the local market and the rest of the continent. Starting operations from June, the