Author: Duncan McLeod

In a potentially groundbreaking development, MTN and Vodafone have announced that MTN Mobile Money and M-Pesa customers in East Africa will soon be able to transfer money to each other

MultiChoice has come out swinging against Caxton after the newspaper publisher and two public broadcasting advocacy groups accused the pay-television operator of concluding a deal with the

Just as South Africa’s broadcasting digital migration project looked to be making solid progress for the first time in years, one of the protagonists in the long-running war over the encryption of TV signals is unleashing its lawyers, potentially setting the process back by

In the latest episode of South Africa’s leading technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about e.tv serving papers on government over its digital television migration policy as well as the reaction of communications minister Faith

Reduced demand for set-top boxes, poor sales of Altech’s much-hyped Node product, the loss of a television assembly business, tough trading conditions at Autopage Cellular and poor performance at

Technology group Gijima, which plans to delist from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange soon, is in trouble with the bourse after failing to submit its interim report within the three-month period stipulated

First National Bank said on Thursday that it will provide 10 000 generators at “significantly discounted prices” to small businesses and residential clients in an effort to “alleviate the immediate

Business Connexion, the IT services group currently the subject of a R2,7bn takeover by Telkom, has turned in a robust performance in the six months ended 28 February 2015, with diluted headline earning per share rising by 23,6% on the back of a 16%

Less than three weeks after Vodacom hiked its subscription fees for a range of contract packages and a week after Telkom revealed plans to hike line rental fees, MTN is following suit, announcing it intends revising subscription rates for its contract and data plans

Judgment is expected next Thursday in a dispute between Telkom and Daimler Fleet Management over a contract for the management of Telkom’s full fleet of 6 000 vehicles used by the telecommunications