Duncan McLeod is founder and managing editor of TechCentral. With more than 30 years of experience in technology journalism, he has worked for and contributed to a range of publications, including the Financial Mail, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times.
Telkom will impair the carrying value of its fixed-line network by R12bn, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Tuesday. This will reduce its net asset value from about R57/share to R34/share. Telkom said last week that it was considering the impairment
A year after having its offer to buy 20% of Telkom spurned by the South African government, Korea’s KT Corp has agreed to pour US$140m into building a national fourth-generation (4G) mobile network in Rwanda that will serve 95% of that country’s population. The Rwandan
South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. When apartheid ended in
In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your regular hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson take a look at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s war on the cost to communicate and the Internet Service Providers’ Association high court victory against spammers. Also this week
Following Friday’s widespread blackout of asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) broadband in South Africa on Friday afternoon, Telkom has explained the problem was caused by routine maintenance gone awry. South African DSL subscribers reported intermittent or
Times Media Group is selling its controlling 51% stake in MAP Integration Technologies (MapIT) to TomTom Africa for R37,5m, the media and entertainment group said on Friday. TomTom already held 49% of MapIT’s equity. Times Media, which publishes newspapers such as the
After decades of promising it, the department of home affairs is finally moving ahead with its plans to replace South Africa’s green, bar-coded identity books with new-fangled ID cards. And the technology built into the new cards, supplied by international digital security specialist Gemalto, is pretty neat
The high court in Johannesburg has dismissed a defamation case brought by training company Ketler Presentations after it was listed in the “hall of shame” for digital spammers run by the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa). The case was dismissed with costs. Ispa’s hall
Communications minister Dina Pule said on Thursday that she had instructed the top management of state-owned enterprises that fell under the department’s control that they had to report to her at least once a month in future to update her on progress made. This was a departure
Telkom’s board of directors is considering the option of impairing the carrying value of the group’s legacy networks. A non-cash impairment charge may follow if the board decides to do this, Telkom says. This would not affect the significant cash flow it generated from its
