Author: Duncan McLeod

City Power, Johannesburg’s municipal electricity company, has walked back a claim it made at the weekend that it wasn’t imposing load shedding on residents.

Eskom has vowed to continue with its accelerated maintenance programme throughout the summer months.

JSE-listed technology group Altron has reported a 71% improvement in interim operating profit from continuing operations to R173-million.

Honor, the smartphone brand spun off from Huawei Technologies, has revealed ambitious plans for the South African market.

Moya, an instant messaging and payments app developed in South Africa, has notched up 6.5 million monthly active users and now has market leader WhatsApp firmly in its sights.

Corporate clients and other stakeholders have banded together to save the Sigfox IoT network in South Africa, with an agreement expected soon.

New research from Ookla shows that MTN is South Africa’s fastest mobile network by some margin, followed by Vodacom and Telkom.

Global telecommunications carriers now have an alternative route for international network traffic thanks to a new fibre link that cuts straight through the centre of Africa.

Telkom has asked Icasa for additional spectrum in the 2.3GHz band – and the company is willing to give up its holdings at 2.4GHz to make it happen.

Exclusive | Vantage Data Centers’ Antoine Boniface spoke to TechCentral about why the company is investing $1-billion on a massive data centre campus in Johannesburg.