Author: Jannie van Zyl

Jannie van Zyl is an electronics engineer with more than 30 years of experience in ICT and a long record of reading the industry’s shifts early. At Vodacom he was instrumental in the launch of 3G, 4G and 5G in South Africa, and, in the last three years, has worked to bring low-Earth orbit satellite connectivity to the country.

Selling vapour is corporate suicide in slow motion - Jannie van Zyl

Selling vapour is corporate suicide in slow motion

By Jannie van Zyl16 July 2026

Promising what you haven’t built is the fastest way to win a deal. It’s also the first move in a slow corporate suicide.

Selling vapour is corporate suicide in slow motion - Jannie van Zyl

South Africa’s broadband future is being decided in orbit, not in Pretoria

By Jannie van Zyl30 June 2026

Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.