Author: Duncan McLeod

President Jacob Zuma, in his capacity as leader of the ANC, must immediately expel former communications minister Dina Pule from parliament and ensure she does not get a “soft landing” in a diplomatic or government posting. That’s the view of Democratic Alliance

Cabinet has rejected the idea of a mandatory control system for digital terrestrial television in South Africa. “Cabinet decided that the use of a control system should not be mandatory,” cabinet said in a statement following its meeting on Wednesday. Set-top boxes that

MWeb plans to tackle the incumbents in the public Wi-Fi hotspot market in South Africa with an aggressively priced offering of its own. The Internet service provider, which is owned by media group Naspers, plans to launch the product this weekend at Canal Walk, a large shopping mall near Cape

Telkom plans to hand back spectrum in a wide range of radio frequencies as it migrates from legacy technologies to next-generation systems. It is in talks with telecommunications regulator Icasa about the plan, which is expected to take years to implement. The operator plans

South Africa’s online landscape is set for huge changes in coming months as new top-level domains, including three “dot-city” top-level domains, are opened for registration for the first time and as long-dormant domains are reintroduced

MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia has lashed out at telecommunications regulator Icasa, accusing it of behaving “irrationally” and threatening future investments in network infrastructure through its plan to cut wholesale mobile call termination rates from 40c/minute to 10c/minute

JSE-listed technology group Datatec’s largest subsidiary, distributor Westcon, has a new CEO. Dolph Westerbos will take the reins on 1 January from Dean Douglas, who is leaving Datatec to take up another role. Westerbos is a joint US-Dutch national who

Government should not impose an encryption system based on conditional access in the set-top boxes that taxpayers will subsidise for poorer households to receive digital terrestrial television. When it meets this week, cabinet should reject the idea, which has polarised the broadcasting industry

In a victory for Absa and its subsidiary AllPay Consolidated Investment Holdings, the constitutional court has declared “constitutionally invalid” the awarding of a R10bn tender to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), a subsidiary of the Johannesburg- and New York-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies

MTN will “vigorously defend” itself against the latest lawsuit brought by rival Turkcell in the high court in Johannesburg, the JSE-listed mobile telecommunications group said on Thursday. MTN said the latest suit from Turkcell, which operates the largest mobile