Author: Duncan McLeod

Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has challenged Telkom’s rivals to follow the operator’s lead in embracing open-access networks. Cwele on Tuesday lauded

On the same day that Telkom announced it is spinning off its wholesale and networks division as a new company called Openserve, one of the company’s fast-growing rivals, fibre-to-the-home provider

Datacentrix has increased headline earnings per share by 14%, to 27,7c, in the six months ended 31 August 2015. The improvement comes on the back of an 11,3% improvement in revenue to R1,2bn

Anyone who has visited Chipata, a picturesque town in eastern Zambia near the border with Malawi, will know it’s not exactly a technology hub. But one company, Impact Enterprises, is helping

Dell has offered US$67bn to buy EMC in the biggest acquisition in the history of the IT industry. The deal will create a “premier end-to-end technology company”, Dell said in a statement. Under the

Digitata is arguably the most interesting local technology company that South Africans have never heard of. Indeed, millions of MTN and Vodacom customers use the company’s products every day without even

Communications minister Faith Muthambi came in for a lashing from the ANC at the weekend for defying party policy on the encryption of digital terrestrial television signals

JSE-listed technology group Altron will in future be a significantly smaller business focused on the IT and telecommunications industries as it sheds non-core assets and loss-making businesses, especially in the legacy power infrastructure side of its business. Robbie Venter has resolved

It’s podcast time! On South Africa’s best weekly technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Microsoft’s big devices keynote — looking at the new Surface Pro and Surface Book, as well as the new Lumia smartphones

MTN-controlled Internet service provider Afrihost has begun moving its digital subscriber line Internet clients onto a new network it believes will offering superior performance. The new network aggregates upstream bandwidth from a number of providers and has been