Author: Duncan McLeod

MultiChoice is moving to cement its position in South Africa’s pay-television industry, on Tuesday announcing that its SuperSport subsidiary plans to launch two new sports channels in high definition on the DStv platform. SuperSport 5HD and SuperSport 6HD will be introduced in 23 July, the company said in a statement

Newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim is moving quickly to familiarise himself with the problems plaguing South Africa’s public broadcaster. The minister’s office said on Tuesday that both he and his deputy, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, will meet with the SABC on Wednesday

The Competition Tribunal is this week set to hear arguments related to the settlement agreement reached between the Competition Commission and Telkom in June.
The agreement with the commission is subject to approval by the tribunal, which will hear the matter on Thursday and Friday this

Puleng Kwele, who was appointed as CEO of Broadband Infraco in 2012, believes the state-owned wholesale fibre-optic infrastructure provider, whose clients include Neotel, MTN and Cell C, is poised to turn around its fortunes in the financial year ended March 2014

So, president Jacob Zuma has finally fired the feckless Dina Pule and South Africa has yet another communications minister, Yunus Carrim, the seventh person to hold the portfolio since 1994. Will he be any better than his predecessors? That’s hard to know. But the fact that he’s a card-carrying member

In this episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson dive into the big technology stories of the past week. And the story that dominated the news this week, of course, was the sacking of communications minister Dina Pule. We look at the new minister, Yunus Carrim, and

Cell C has won its latest skirmish with Vodacom at the Advertising Standards Authority, this time over an advertisement its bigger rival ran in a Sunday newspaper last month promoting its international tariffs. Cell C, through its advertising agency, lodged a competitor complaint against Vodacom over

Telkom’s newly appointed group CEO, Sipho Maseko, has bought shares worth almost R1m in the JSE-listed telecommunications operator. Maseko bought 52 000 shares on Thursday, 11 July, worth R990 080. The purchase came on the same day that Telkom Mobile slashed prepaid voice tariffs to

Telkom Mobile has slashed prepaid call tariffs to 29c/minute on per-second billing for on-network calls and to 75c/minute to all other networks. The new prepaid tariff plan, called Sim-Sonke, is “expected to blow the competition out of the water by offering the lowest standard mobile call rates in the country”, Telkom says in a statement

iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) may be close to signing a deal with either Vodacom or MTN to build a national 4G broadband network based on long-term evolution technology, TechCentral has learnt. Mtshali says WBS has had extensive discussions with