Author: Duncan McLeod

Residents of the prominent Johannesburg suburb of Blairgowrie have voted overwhelmingly in favour of telecommunications start-up Vumatel rolling out fibre-to-the-home broadband in

Telkom and Cell C offer the best-value contract packages for consumers, Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker shows. The company’s second “Perfect Package Tracker” of 2015 measures the real effects of price and package changes in South Africa’s post-paid

More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that

Communications regulator Icasa has decided to approve Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel, but has attached conditions to the deal. That’s the word from Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka, who declined on Monday to say what the conditions are that

Vodacom’s top executives have taken an effective pay cut in the 2015 financial year thanks to reductions in short-term incentives, the telecommunications group’s annual report, published at the weekend, shows. In the year ended 31

Sipho Maseko is one brave CEO. The Telkom boss is about to take on powerful trade unions in a move to restructure the telecommunications operator’s business so that it can compete effectively in

In the latest episode of South Africa’s top technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the jobs bloodbath and restructuring looming at Telkom and why it’s unfortunately all necessary. Also this week

Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry is apparently giving serious thought to the idea of releasing a device running Android. According to a report by Reuters, the move would be an acknowledgement by the company’s revamped BlackBerry 10-powered

Project Isizwe, the nonprofit behind the roll-out of free Wi-Fi in greater Pretoria, has revealed plans to offer users free on-network phone calls and free streaming movies, including the latest

Standard Bank is developing a banking application for the Apple Watch, the financial services institution said on Thursday. The app is being tested with “pilot users” and will be available to the