Author: Duncan McLeod

Want funeral cover? Or life insurance? How about buying them with your next data bundle? Insurance, believe it or not, is one of telecommunications operator Vodacom’s fastest growing

Former Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati has been appointed as the new CEO of MTN South Africa, a spokesman for the telecommunications operator said on Monday. Nyati, who was appointed as group head of MTN’s enterprise business in

The emergence of as many as two dozen rivals in the fibre-to-the-home broadband market is good for Telkom, good for consumers and good for the economy, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said at

Less than a week after the labour court ordered Telkom to suspend a section 189 retrenchment process, the company has decided to abandon that approach and has opted instead to offer voluntary

So, Ahmad Farroukh, MTN South Africa’s CEO of the past 11 months, is leaving at the end of July. His tenure has been rocky, to say the least. He was brought in to turn around the troubled operator

Only 27% of cellphones sold in Africa and the Middle East in 2019 will be feature phones. The vast majority will be smartphones, according to new research from International Data Corp

Communications regulator Icasa and the National Consumer Commission have signed a memorandum of agreement clearly setting out which type of consumer complaints each will deal

Telkom has rejected claims that it is employing the same techniques used by malicious hackers in so-called “man in the middle” attacks to edit code on websites in order to serve the telecommunications operator’s own content to end users. Johannesburg

What do you do if your rival’s product is both market leading and market defining? When everything you do will be compared to your competitor’s offering? Well, if you’re Sony and you’re making a

Maggy Sibiya tells me she is relieved when I arrive at her office in Rivonia in Johannesburg without a camera. The ICT-Works chief operating officer says she is a “behind the scenes type of person” and