Author: Duncan McLeod

In this podcast, TechCentral speaks to Calvin Collett, MD at Internet service provider Supersonic, about the company’s new Air Fibre uncapped broadband product launched earlier this month.

Telkom is open to reaching an out-of-court settlement with communications regulator Icasa over the spectrum auction, though little progress has been made in any talks.

The number of copper fixed lines in service at Telkom has plunged yet again. At the end of March, the company had fewer than 1.3 million customers using copper, down 20% from 1.6 million a year ago.

Has communications regulator Icasa just snatched away prime 5G spectrum from under the noses of South Africa’s big mobile operators?

Altron has won a long-running legal battle over the validity of a broadband tender for the City of Tshwane, with the constitutional court upholding a previous judgment of the supreme court of appeal.

The digital dividend will be released to telecommunications operators on a province-by-province basis, communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said in parliament.

Amazon Web Services already has a team of 7 000 people in South Africa, most of them based in Cape Town, but the US cloud computing giant is not done hiring.

The Competition Commission has launched an investigation into online markets in South Africa, designed as a “proactive” measure to prevent monopolies from forming in the e-commerce space.

Vodacom spent more than R10-billion on its network in South Africa in the financial year to 31 March, outpacing rival MTN, as it ramped up investment to deal with soaring demand.

Investors pushed Telkom’s share price more than 5% higher on Tuesday morning after the telecoms operator said it would report a bounce in full-year headline earnings.