Telkom and Icasa are playing a game of chicken ahead of a planned spectrum auction next month. The stakes could not be higher.
Browsing: Duncan McLeod
New Telkom CEO Serame Taukobong has a challenge on his hands: the mobile growth story that underpinned the business in recent years appears to be ending.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s surprise instruction to the Special Investigating Unit to probe Telkom is very likely all about ANC politics. By Duncan McLeod.
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni needs to act with haste to try to resolve the spectrum licensing crisis that is now engulfing the ICT sector. By Duncan McLeod.
Communications regulator Icasa has served notice on operators that it will withdraw temporary spectrum allocated under the Covid-19 regulations at the end of November. This is wrongheaded. By Duncan McLeod.
There is real irony in the way Telkom is using every opportunity it gets to complain about a “duopoly” in South Africa’s mobile industry. By Duncan McLeod.
Sipho Maseko, who announced last week that he will step down as Telkom CEO next year, saved the company from impending ruin. That might sound like an overstatement; it’s not. By Duncan McLeod.
South Africa’s mobile operators, including Vodacom, MTN and Rain, are set to face a big challenge to their business models from an unexpected quarter: fixed-line broadband. By Duncan McLeod.
Dear @jack, as you may be aware by now, South Africa is burning. What you might not know is that your platform is being abused by political antagonists to flame the violence. By Duncan McLeod.
The news this week that the State IT Agency is pressuring national treasury to ban government from doing business with JSE-listed IT services group EOH Holdings makes no sense.