Author: Duncan McLeod

Communications regulator Icasa has won a high court battle against iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions, with the court finding that the telecommunications operator was using radio frequency spectrum without paying the required licence fees. The judgment

PCCW Global, the international operating division of Hong Kong Telecom, will build the network and provide the technology infrastructure that will support a planned R84bn urban development at Modderfontein, north-east of Johannesburg, the company said on Tuesday. The project, the brainchild of Chinese national

It seems even those perceived to be leaders in social media can fluff it sometimes. First National Bank was forced to apologise on Tuesday after sending out a message on Twitter that it has since admitted was a “lapse in judgment”. FNB’s official Twitter account, @rbjacobs, sent dozens of tweets to upset

MTN South Africa has won its latest battle with Cell C at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), this time after the latter objected to a print advertisement, published in March, in which MTN claimed it was helping “put a dent in unemployment”. The ad, which was published in the

The share price of Net1 UEPS Technologies plummeted in Johannesburg and New York on Thursday afternoon after the constitutional court ordered that a tender for the management of South Africa’s social grants system be carried out again. The R10bn contract had been awarded to Net1 subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services

Keith Matthews, MD of BT in South Africa and GM of the UK-headquartered firm’s sub-Saharan Africa region, is stepping down at the end of the month. He will be replaced by a senior technology industry figure on 1 May, but the company is not naming his

Fast-growing African tower management company IHS has secured a further US$130m in the second tranche of its latest fund-raising exercise, it said on Thursday. The capital raised is in addition to the $490m of new debt ($70m) and equity ($420m) announced last month and is with existing investors, IHS said. “IHS will use

Altron is keeping mum about the future of subsidiary Altech Autopage Cellular in the wake of news this week that the cellular service provider’s most direct rival, Reunert’s Nashua Mobile, has decided to sell off its customer base and close up shop. All Altron will say when contacted by TechCentral is that the JSE-listed group

A R1,3bn, seven-year, government-led project to extend broadband in Cape Town is making good headway, the city said on Wednesday. The city has concluded the first agreements with private-sector service providers, who have taken up spare capacity on high-speed fibre-optic network, a move it said will help drive economic

JSE-listed technology services provider Business Connexion has reported a slight decline in normalised headline earnings per share of 20,7c in the six months ended 28 February 2014, from 21,3c previously. Revenue for the period was R3,1bn