Author: Duncan McLeod

Any doubt that lower wholesale call termination rates have led to a sharp decline in retail mobile tariffs in South Africa should be put to rest, new research shows. South Africans have benefited directly from a reduction in termination rates – the fees telecommunications

Telkom and Cell C both face significant upheaval in the short term, much more so than their rivals MTN and Vodacom. How the two companies adapt to the changing market will have a dramatic impact on South Africa’s telecoms sector and, ultimately, on the services that

Signal jamming in parliament, Cell C gaining market share, GCHQ hacking Gemalto, restructuring at Telkom. It’s all in this week’s packed episode of TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the week’s biggest

The sale of iBurst and Broadlink parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) to a company backed by top former bankers Michael Jordaan and Paul Harris is proceeding, subject to regulatory approvals, after the conclusion

Western Cape premier Helen Zille on Friday accused President Jacob Zuma of “shielding Telkom from open competition” in naming the company as the “lead agency” to roll out broadband in underserviced parts

Wi-Fi networks, rather than those operated by mobile communications companies, will eventually be the predominant way that South Africans connect to the Internet, according to Alan Knott-Craig, the

Fibre broadband provider Vumatel has announced plans to expand its nascent fibre-to-the-home network to more Johannesburg suburbs. The company said on Friday that residents of Killarney and Riviera, suburbs

Tariffic, an independent company launched in late 2013 to analyse and optimise the cellphone spend of business users and high-net-worth individuals, will launch a Web portal in the coming months that will

MTN said on Thursday that it expects that its headline earnings per share (Heps) for the full-year ended 31 December 2014 rose by between 5% and 15%. The mobile operator, which owns networks in 22 countries in the Africa and the Middle East

MTN has continued to lose market share in prepaid in South Africa in the past six months, despite slashing its voice tariffs to 79c/minute, new numbers published by Blue Label Telecoms suggest