Author: Duncan McLeod

Bad news to start this Wednesday: Eskom will escalate load shedding to stage 4 at 9am, suggesting a significant deterioration in its generating fleet.

Telkom and Rain have emerged as the winners in the first round of South Africa’s radio frequency spectrum auction.

Telkom has asked the high court in Pretoria to impose a “structural or supervisory” interdict on communications regulator Icasa over spectrum licensing.

Icasa will finally auction access to spectrum for mobile broadband services this week. But a looming court battle could still derail the allocation.

EOH Holdings will meet with investors in the coming days to assess its “strategic options” for dealing with its gearing problem.

Massmart has reported full-year results stained in red ink thanks in part to the impairment an SAP ERP system at troubled retailer Game.

Starlogik, a telecommunications specialist founded by South African technologists, has secured a top award at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The Economic Freedom Fighters has slammed MultiChoice over what it has inaccurately claimed is the broadcaster’s “unilateral decision” to remove Russia’s RT from DStv.

RT, the Russian state-owned news channel formerly known as Russia Today, is no longer available on DStv, just one day after MultiChoice said it had no intention of canning it.

MTN Group’s share price topped R200/share on Wednesday, the first time the JSE-listed telecoms giant has touched these levels in nearly seven years.