Just when everyone thought the price war among Internet service providers had petered out, MWeb, one of South Africa’s largest service providers, has chopped the price of five of its capped broadband ADSL products and nine of its fibre-to-the-home
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Duncan McLeod
Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.
Vodacom chief financial officer Ivan Dittrich has resigned, three years after leaving technology group Datatec to take on the role. He will leave the mobile telecommunications group at the end of July and will be succeeded by Till Streichert from 1 August. Streichert
Radically improving MTN’s customer service, aggressively growing the company’s top line – in part by taking market share from bigger rival Vodacom – expanding into business services, and building
Despite union objections, Telkom has announced it is extending voluntary severance and early retirement packages to all employees, including those that belong to trade unions. The decision to offer packages to all staff, included unionised
If Vodacom is allowed access to Neotel’s radio frequency spectrum assets, it will give the mobile operator an “unfair advantage” over MTN and other players in the telecommunications industry
Advtech has rejected rival Curro’s newest “offer”, telling its rival that its latest correspondence has not changed materially from a previous approach and therefore doesn’t warrant further consideration
South Africa’s telecommunications industry will grow at a compound annual rate of just 1,4% over the next five years, meaning that in real terms – adjusted for inflation – the sector is shrinking. But
Altron has decided to sell its poorly performing video-on-demand platform, the Altech Node, and is in the advanced stages of discussions with an unnamed third party to dispose of the product. Altron subsidiary Altech launched the Node
Building fibre broadband infrastructure into homes and businesses is one of MTN South Africa’s “biggest priorities”, its newly appointed CEO, Mteto Nyati, has said. In an interview with TechCentral
Communications regulator Icasa has asked for written submissions over the proposed acquisition of iBurst and Broadlink parent Wireless Business Solutions by MultiSource, a company that enjoys the backing of former banking executives Michael Jordaan