Author: Duncan McLeod

Telkom Mobile has extended its Sim-Sonke prepaid plan to roaming partner MTN’s network, meaning subscribers can use the aggressively priced plans in many more parts of South Africa. Previously, Sim-Sonke was available only on Telkom Mobile’s network

MTN has completed a project to deploy four 4G/LTE-based wireless broadband base stations at a site in the Northern Cape where a project is underway to smash the land-speed record. The Bloodhound SSC Project, a global education initiative, aims not only to break the previous land-speed record of 1 227,9km/h, but wants to push

There was a time, oh, 10 years ago, when consumers used to salivate at the prospect of a new handset from Nokia. From the 2004’s computer-cum-phone, the 9500 Communicator, to 2007’s multimedia powerhouse, the N95, it used to be that for many people that the only option when it came to upgrading

Vodacom has settled a longstanding dispute with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) over suggestions that the mobile operator owed the telecommunications regulator more than R77m in unpaid fees for the use of radio frequency spectrum

The purchase by Telkom group chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte of R6m worth of Telkom shares on 30 September had nothing to do with the operator’s board’s decision to suspend him on Thursday pending the outcome a disciplinary process

South Africa should have a target of universal broadband, offering a minimum download speed of 100Mbit/s to four-fifths of the population, by 2030, the latest draft of government’s broadband policy document, released on Friday, says. In order to achieve

MultiChoice is merging its DStv Online and DStv Mobile businesses and has made a number of management changes, including moving mobile CEO Mark Rayner into the newly created position of chief operating officer of MultiChoice South Africa. At the same time

Telkom chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte was offered the opportunity to resign before being suspended on Thursday, but doing so would not have been “congruent” with his “value system”. In a telephonic interview with TechCentral shortly after Telkom announced

Business Day Television (BDTV) and CNBC Africa have become embroiled in a dispute over alleged plagiarism after the former broadcaster, formerly known as Summit TV, accused its competitor of copying a series of messages posted on Twitter during yesterday’s midterm budget speech by finance

The South African market has continued to be “challenging” for MTN as a result of what the telecommunications group calls “regulatory and competitive actions”. In a quarterly update for the three months ended 30 September, the group’s CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa, says subscriber growth was