5G won’t kill fibre broadband, Vox CEO says
The potential of mobile technology has been “blown out of proportion” and won’t undermine demand for fibre broadband solutions.
Author Duncan McLeod
MTN to launch ‘WeChat of Africa’
MTN Group has announced it will launch an instant messaging service akin to China’s WeChat and Facebook’s WhatsApp as it seeks to expand revenue from digital services and mobile money.
MTN South Africa’s prospects looking up
MTN South Africa improved service revenue by 4.2% in the 2018 financial year while at the same time growing operating margins, parent MTN Group said on Thursday.
Hello Group, Sasfin in fintech-led bid to bank the mass market
Hello Group, working with Sasfin, has launched a bid to bank the unbanked in South Africa with a new fintech offering that builds on its successes in the telecommunications and mobile financial remittance markets.
Microsoft cloud data centres now live in South Africa
Microsoft has officially launched two Azure cloud data centres in South Africa, one in Cape Town and the other in Johannesburg, after the software giant missed an earlier deadline of December 2018 to take the facilities live.
Behind ZimboCash, the cryptocurrency its backers hope will help save Zimbabwe
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, we speak to Philip Haslam, one of the people behind ZimboCash, a company that is building an alternative national currency for the troubled Zimbabwean economy.
TalkCentral: Ep 253 – ‘Ripley, believe it or not’
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about some of the highlights from MWC 2019, including Huawei’s foldable phone and Energizer’s insane battery phone.
Liquid Telecom mulling what to do with its prime 5G spectrum
Liquid Telecom is giving serious thought to leveraging its spectrum asset in the 3.5GHz band, which happens to be ideally suited to the roll-out of next-generation 5G mobile broadband technology.
MTN will not charge for data rollover
MTN South Africa has implemented new data rollover, transfer and out-of-bundle features to comply with Icasa’s new data regulations and has said it won’t charge users for data rollover.
SAP, EOH affiliate TTCS caught up in bribery allegations
German software giant SAP and EOH affiliate company Twenty Third Century Systems have been accused of bribery to secure a multimillion-dollar software contract in Tanzania.