Author: Duncan McLeod

The department of telecommunications and postal services has published a comprehensive discussion and options paper setting out the policy options for developing South Africa’s information and communications technology industry. “The gazetting of the national integrated ICT policy options

In this hour-long edition of the TalkCentral podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg discuss – and sometimes rant about – the big news stories of the week. And there’s plenty to talk about. First up on the agenda is Telkom’s launch of LTE-Advanced and its decision

Telkom has abandoned plans, at least in the short term, to deploy fibre to the home in Parkview and Parkhurst after the residents’ associations of the two suburbs chose rival telecommunications providers Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa to build home fibre

In a significant development, MTN has lodged objections at both communications regulator Icasa and the Competition Commission against Vodacom’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel, putting a potentially big hurdle in the way of the conclusion of the deal. TechCentral has established that

Cell C said on Thursday evening that high court judge Sharise Weiner erred in her judgment in favour of one of the mobile operator’s clients, warning that her ruling has “wide-ranging implications” for South African business. In her judgment

DStv operator MultiChoice has debuted “remote recording”, allowing its subscribers to go online to set recordings on their personal video recorder (PVR) set-top boxes remotely. At the same time, the broadcaster, which is owned by JSE-listed

A full six months after President Jacob Zuma announced he would split the department of communications in two, his office appears set to issue a new proclamation to determine the transfer of functions between the new departments of communications and telecommunications

Vodacom intends rolling out high-speed fibre-optic broadband to 250 000 end points within the next three years. This will include connecting 150 000 homes and 100 000 businesses, the telecommunications operator’s

Just two months after Mr Price announced that it would be South Africa’s second mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) after Virgin Mobile, another company has announced plans to venture into the MVNO space. Cape Town-based Smart Mobile, which specialises in providing cellular services and handsets

Technology start-ups and the entrepreneurs who lead them should tackle the “many great opportunities” in South Africa and Africa more broadly rather than trying to emulate his decision to move to the US, says Gyft founder Vinny Lingham. Lingham, now one of the “dragons” in the South African