Author: Duncan McLeod

Fast-growing African tower operator IHS Holding announced on Monday that it has signed agreements to raise capital of US$2,6bn, or more than R28bn. It said the amount is the largest equity raising in Africa since 2007. The company is raising

In the six months from April to September, Telkom budgeted to spend R234m after tax paying for retrenchments and voluntary severance and retirement packages as it looks to cut costs in an increasingly competitive telecommunications

The leafy Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst, one of the first in South Africa to get high-speed fibre-to-the-home broadband, now looks set to be the scene of a turf war between two competing fixed-line telecommunications providers. It’s a David vs Goliath battle that could also help decide which

In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about MTN’s aggressive expansion plans in the enterprise IT market, including its plans to make acquisitions. Also in this week’s podcast, your

South Africa’s department of telecommunications and postal services and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will collaborate on a new project to test “new, sustainable approaches to bringing broadband connectivity to rural post offices”. The idea, according to a statement issued by the ITU

MTN’s newly appointed group chief enterprise officer, Mteto Nyati – until recently MD of Microsoft South Africa – has been given a big target to chase. In the next three years, he has to build the mobile operator’s enterprise

The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the government agency tasked with bridging South Africa’s digital divide, has provided details of those who will qualify for a subsidy when buying a set-top box for watching digital terrestrial television. The subsidies proposed range from

Website administrators were scrambling on Thursday to patch their servers after a security hole in the Drupal content management system led to automated attacks, compromising website worldwide. Drupal is an open-source content management framework used by more than 2% of websites globally, ranging

The Competition Commission has recommended the approval of MTN’s acquisition of a majority stake in Afrihost. It won’t impose any conditions on its support of the deal, it said on Wednesday. TechCentral reported in early June that the

E.tv chief operating officer Bronwyn Keene-Young has quit following the resignation earlier this week of CEO Marcel Golding. Keene-Young, who is married to Golding, reportedly handed in her resignation on Wednesday in a strongly worded letter that slams