Duncan McLeod is editor of TechCentral.
Attila Vitai, the newly appointed MD of Telkom’s mobile division, has arguably one of the toughest jobs in South Africa’s telecommunications industry. It’s his task to turn the country’s fourth mobile entrant into a viable and, eventually, a profitable enterprise in what has become a highly competitive
Submarine telecommunications cable developer eFive Telecoms says its US$280m SAEx system, for which construction should start in 2014, will provide international capacity to a range of coastal South African towns and cities at speeds of up to 24Tbit/s
MTN South Africa has undergone a big restructuring. It’s folded its MTN Business subsidiary into its bigger mobile unit so that it is a now division rather than a separate legal entity. The move is meant to ensure that MTN’s corporate customers have one
Japanese electronics giant Sony has launched its new flagship television set in South Africa. And it’s a steal at just R279 000! The main selling point of the new 84-inch TV is its resolution – at 3 840×2 160 pixels, it’s four times the resolution of the 1080p
Open-access fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure provider Link Africa, formerly known as i3 Africa, has revealed that it expects to begin rolling out high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections starting in 2013. The company, which has bought
Impressive. That’s the adjective that seems most appropriate in describing Telkom’s new chairman. Jabu Mabuza, a taxi driver turned business mogul, has very quickly identified the challenges facing Telkom and recognised the need to mend the breakdown
It’s been more than five years now since Apple pulled the rug from under Nokia with the original iPhone. Since then, Nokia, once the world leader in smartphones, has been scrambling to develop a product that can beat the iPhone as its market share and its
Reunert has lifted its total cash dividend per share by 12%, to 275c, on the back of a 9% increase in normalised headline earnings per share for the year ended 30 September 2012. The JSE-listed technology and telecommunications group, whose brands include Nashua Mobile and
It is not up to government to devise a strategy for Telkom or for it to impose its will on the company. Rather, it’s up to management, through the board of directors, to develop a strategy and sell that to all shareholders, including government. That’s the view of newly
Migration from fixed-line services to mobile alternatives continues to hurt Telkom, with the number of fixed lines in service plummeting to less than 3,9m at the end of September from 4,1m a year ago. The operator’s interim results for the six
