Author: Duncan McLeod

Communications regulator Icasa now intends introducing new regulations governing wholesale mobile call termination rates on 1 April, a month earlier than the date it communicated to the industry just last week. The move means termination rates

The latest numbers from JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms, by far South Africa’s largest distributor of prepaid airtime, suggest MTN is haemorrhaging market share to rival Cell C in the mass market. In notes accompanying Blue Label’s interim results for the half year ended November 2013

Convergence Partners is the newest investor in 4Di Capital’s venture capital (VC) fund. The technology investment management firm, founded and controlled by businessman Andile Ngcaba, will be an equal limited partner in the fund alongside Reinet (the Rupert family) and E Oppenheimer & Son

Communications minister Yunus Carrim is continuing to engage with warring broadcasters over set-top box control for digital terrestrial television, but government will make a final decision within the next three to four weeks even if final consensus can’t be reached

Data traffic over mobile networks in South Africa will increase by nearly eight-fold in the next five years and grow twice as quickly as fixed Internet traffic. That’s one of the key predictions in networking vendor Cisco’s “Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update

MTN has won a partial victory following a complaint lodged at the Advertising Standards Authority over a television advertisement flighted in October 2013 by rival Vodacom. The commercial centres on a fictional family, the Khumalos. When a member of the family expresses

Acting SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was appointed irregularly to the position and committed fraud by lying repeatedly about his qualifications. These are just two of a wide number of damning findings in a report by public protector

The Democratic Alliance has called on communications minister Yunus Carrim, in his capacity as shareholder representative at the SABC, to instruct the public broadcaster’s board to suspend its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with immediate

Naspers’s share price has added nearly a third in the past three months and has more than doubled in the past year as investor excitement in its Chinese affiliate, fast-growing communications and e-commerce firm Tencent, reaches fever pitch

Fibre-optic telecommunications specialist Dark Fibre Africa has announced it is to acquire Conduct, a last-mile fibre developer that provides high-speed access to business customers in South Africa’s urban centre. DFA has traditional focused on metropolitan