TechCentral brings you a special podcast interview with communications minister Roy Padayachie on how government wants to work with the private sector to grow SA’s communications technology industry
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Communications minister Roy Padayachie has outlined plans to increase competition in the technology and telecommunications sector, introduce pro-competitive regulatory reforms
Emerging-markets cellphone group MTN wants to become a serious force to be reckoned with in the mobile content and application space, with plans to launch an app store
Baharicom has put a refuted speculation that the R5,4bn Africa Coast to Europe (Ace) cable is no longer coming to SA’s shores. The Ace investor says SA is still part of the project plan
Speculation is growing in the telecommunications industry about who will take the top job at Telkom when acting group CEO Jeffrey Hedberg steps down at the end of March
A punishing weekly commute between his home in Franschhoek in the Western Cape and Johannesburg is what prompted Vox Telecom CEO Tony van Marken to step down
It’s official! Businessman Lazarus Zim is Telkom’s new nonexecutive chairman, replacing Jeff Molobela. He has been appointed to the position for a 12-month period by government
Vodacom on Monday officially took the wraps off its television Internet device, the Vodafone WebBox, which it hopes will extend Internet access to poorer South Africans
Nokia and Microsoft, both struggling to stay relevant in the booming smartphone market, plan to ink a broad-ranging agreement that will result in the Finnish handset
Could Zimbabwe be the next big investment opportunity for emerging markets-focused telecommunications operators? A new report from Renaissance Capital suggests it might be