Author: Duncan McLeod

Six months after Sprint announced it was in talks to sell 70% of its equity to Japan’s SoftBank for US$20bn, Dish Network Corp, a US direct-to-home satellite pay-TV operator with 14m subscribers, has put in a bid of $25,5bn to buy the wireless communications firm. It’s a move

The competition appeal court has agreed to allow Telkom and the Competition Commission to withdraw their separate appeals in the long-running case involving anticompetitive abuses by the telecommunications operator between 1999 and 2004

Financially distressed pay-TV operator TopTV, owned by On Digital Media and which is under “business rescue” in terms of the Companies Act, is discontinuing two of its channels this week. “As TopTV continues to operate under the business rescue plan … it has become necessary

JSE-listed technology solutions company Datacentrix has lifted revenue by 9% to R1,9bn in its financial year ended February 2013, but sharp downward pressure on margins led to a 16% decline in headline earnings per share. “The past few years, though profitable, have been

Times Media Group, the publishing, music and retail group formerly known as Avusa, has said it intends acquiring the 50% stake in the loss-making BDFM it does not own. Times Media, which owns the Sunday Times, Exclusive Books, Nu Metro and Gallo Music, is buying the stake

Suspended communications department director-general Rosey Sekese has returned to work, but there’s still no official word on why she was placed on “special leave” in the first place. Sekese, who was sent home on enforced leave in mid-January, returned to work on Wednesday this

The personal computer industry is under severe pressure. New, preliminary data from research and analyst firm Gartner shows that 79,2m PCs were shipped in the first quarter of 2013, an 11,2% decline over the same quarter in 2012. This is the first time the number had fallen below 80m since the second quarter

MTN is one of 15 operators still in the running for a potentially lucrative mobile telecommunications licence in Myanmar, various news wires reported on Thursday. The shortlist has been whittled down from 90 companies that had expressed an interest in mobile licences that will soon be up for grabs

The under-resourced and often ineffective Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has a reputation for lacking teeth when it comes to enforcing order in the telecommunications sector it regulates. For example, there’s still no clear outcome in the case of the alleged unlawful use by wireless Internet

The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday asked the South African Police Service to investigate communications minister Dina Pule, her alleged boyfriend Phosane Mngqibisa, SABC chief financial officer Gugu Duda and SABC CEO Lulama Makhobo over allegations of corruption. “The