Author: Duncan McLeod

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

With just four months to go until the deadline to switch off analogue television broadcasts, the digital migration programme may be about to be thrown into disarray once again. This is after a report on Wednesday that says that communications

Long-troubled technology group Gijima looks set to delist from the JSE after chairman Robert Gumede’s Yebo Guma Investments made an offer on Tuesday evening to buy out the remaining minority shareholders. Guma has

Telkom has announced plans to restructure its business, outsourcing noncore operations, rationalising its IT systems and closing retail stores, among other cost-saving moves. The company

Telkom has denied an allegation made by a labour union on Monday that it intends laying off up to 10 000 employees. The Solidarity trade union said on Monday that it has learnt that Telkom

The chief officer of Vodacom’s consumer business unit, Phil Patel, is moving on. He will be replaced in the role by Godfrey Motsa, who is currently chief officer of regional operations. From April, Patel will take up the role of regional commercial director

Communications regulator Icasa is “obliged” to investigate the jamming of cellular signals and other incidents that led to an “unprecedented contravention of media freedom” during the state-of-the-nation