Author: Duncan McLeod

Musa Phungula, the man behind a new subsea cable that will link similar systems landing at Mtunzini in KwaZulu-Natal and Yzerfontein north of Cape Town, plans to build two huge, 6000sq m data centres to house servers for international content companies and local telecommunications operators

The battle between WirelessG and Vodacom, which holds 26% of the specialist Wi-Fi provider, is getting uglier. On Tuesday, WirelessG CEO Carel van der Merwe said in comments e-mailed to TechCentral that Vodacom had “reached a state of total incompetence” and said the mobile

Communications minister Dina Pule said on Monday that she has withdrawn her application for leave to appeal against a high court judgment that found in favour of free-to-air broadcaster e.tv over who will manage the control system for digital terrestrial television. Speaking at

Weekend newspaper reports suggest that controversial communications minister Dina Pule is about to be sacked by President Jacob Zuma, with Lindiwe Zulu to take her place in the crucial portfolio. According to a report in the

Vodacom has just thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors, signalling that it won’t take attempts by rivals to take away market share lying down. The mobile operator, South Africa’s largest, has announced it will take an axe to the cost of voice calls: from 10 February – this Sunday – it will

Vodacom and Cell C have declared war on each other, that much is clear. It was the bigger of the two that made the latest move – on Friday, Vodacom cut prepaid tariffs to R1,20/minute (on per-minute billing) and, more significantly, began offering huge amounts of effectively

Headline earnings per share at technology group Jasco slumped by 26,9% in the six months ended 31 December 2012 due to “adverse market conditions” that “severely impacted” some of its operating businesses. Although group revenue rose

Vodacom’s revenues in South Africa have come under pressure in the three months ended 31 December 2012, and the operator is blaming increased price competition from rivals, along with other factors, for the muted performance. South Africa is Vodacom’s most

Strong growth in mobile data continues to be the deliverer for Vodacom as the voice revenue shows signs of going into reverse in South Africa’s fast-maturing and increasingly competitive market. For the three months ended 31 December 2012

After significant delays, in part caused by the complexity of managing a project involving three direct competitors, the National Long Distance (NLD) consortium has finally switched on its fibre-optic telecommunications networks between Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. The