Duncan McLeod is editor of TechCentral.
In the latest episode of South Africa’s best technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Telkom’s new and aggressively priced 1Mbit/s wholesale ADSL service. Also this week, they discuss Alan Knott-Craig’s new venture, HeroTel, and
Growth in international Internet capacity connected to Africa outpaces all other regions of the world, new research shows. African Internet bandwidth grew by 41% between 2014 and 2015, and by 51% compounded annually over the past five years, to reach 2,9Tbit/s, according to new data from
The Democratic Alliance has accused communications minister Faith Muthambi of embarking on a R600 000 “junket” to the US, where she visited a luxury goods show and a folk art festival. DA MP Gavin Davis said on Thursday that Muthambi
Telkom will not again structure a contract with an exit package as generous as the one paid to former chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte, board chairman Jabu Mabuza has vowed. TechCentral revealed in July that Telkom had paid
Cell C parent Oger Telecom has received offers to buy its controlling 75% stake in the South African mobile telecommunications operator from six groups, it was reported on Wednesday. Business Day quoted Oger Telecom chief legal officer and
The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, one of the most trafficked tourist attractions in the world, is now also host to a technology hub that its backers hope will help incubate and grow the next crop of
Vodacom has developed what it’s calling a “new way to watch video via mobile” with an app called Video Play, which utilises spare network capacity to download and cache selected content at a reduced cost to consumers. “Users preselect their content
Project Isizwe CEO and former iBurst boss Alan Knott-Craig has launched a new wireless Internet service provider, HeroTel, to provide wireless broadband to homes and businesses, TechCentral can reveal. Knott-Craig wants HeroTel
Telkom has introduced a new, entry-level asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) product at a wholesale price of less than R50/month in an attempt to light a fire under demand for fixed-line broadband and to steal market share from the mobile operators
IT and telecommunications shares took a pounding on Monday as a global stock market rout hammered the JSE. Big companies such as MTN and EOH were trading sharply lower as investors fled shares for safer assets
