Author: Duncan McLeod

JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has reported a 6% improvement in headline earnings to R451m in the year to May 2014. This came on the back of an improvement in gross profit margins from 6,7% to almost 7% and a slight uptick in revenue to R19,4bn. Losses at its Mexican business

MTN South Africa has secured a tender from City Power, Johannesburg’s electricity supply agency, to turn lampposts into cellular base stations in a move the operator believes will go a long way to solving coverage challenges not

Telkom’s Internet service provider intends enforcing its fair-use policy on its customers in what the operator claims is “in the spirit of enhancing the Internet experience of all its users”. Until now, Telkom ISP – the name of its service provider business

Durban-based technology services company Adapt IT has grown headline earnings per share by 55% to 34,55c in its 2014 financial year, which ended in June. That was on the back of a 34% rise in revenue to R406,3m and a 69% improvement in operating profit to R49,6m. On the

As the debate over network neutrality rages in the US, South African Internet service providers, through their industry association, have urged communications regulator Icasa to steer clear of crafting regulations dealing with the contentious issue — at least for now. But what’s

President Jacob Zuma must tell communications minister Faith Muthambi to back off and allow telecommunications and postal services Siyabonga Cwele to do his job when it comes to South Africa’s long-delayed project to migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. That’s the view of Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn, who says a turf war

A South African vehicle tracking and fleet management company, Pulsit Electronics, has developed a system it believes could help weaken the scourge of truck hijackings in Southern Africa. It works by countering the signal jamming devices criminals use

High-definition channels will no longer be the exclusive preserve of DStv Premium, MultiChoice’s high-end bouquet. The Naspers-owned pay-television broadcaster said on Thursday that it will make HD channels available to all its subscribers. “Effective immediately, customers who have channels

Technology company Mustek expects its headline earnings per share (Heps) have risen by as much as 45% in the 12-month period ended 30 June 2014 compared to the same period a year earlier. In a statement to shareholders on Thursday, the company — which is particularly well known for its Mecer brand of computers — said that it expects that

Pay-television broadcaster MultiChoice and the Premier Soccer League have taken the wraps off a new football competition called the MultiChoice Diski Challenge. The three-year agreement, which is being billed as a corporate social investment project by MultiChoice, will provide life skills and leadership development for players