One of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, New York-headquartered Verizon Communications, will back a new 5G network to be deployed in South Africa by local telecommunications company Comsol
Speculation is growing that Vodacom is poised to buy 49% of fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel. Industry talk is that Dark Fibre Africa, in a deal possibly facilitated through its largest shareholder, Remgro
Microsoft is planning to release a line of lower-cost Surface tablets as soon as the second half of 2018, seeking a hit in a market for cheaper devices that Apple dominates with the iPad, according to people familiar
Institutional investors haven’t been this sceptical about Apple since at least the financial crisis. They reduced their holdings in the iPhone maker by about 153m shares in the first three months of the year, an analysis
Tencent Holdings, in which JSE-listed Naspers holds a 31.2% stake, posted first-quarter profit that blew past analysts’ estimates, bolstered by mobile game blockbusters like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
First National Bank said on Wednesday that it is introducing new functionality its smartphone banking app that will allow consumers to sign up for a bank account by taking a “selfie” in an entirely paperless process
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela returns to the show to discuss communications regulator Icasa’s inquiry into the pay-television industry and the future of the
MultiChoice South Africa will launch a streaming-only version of DStv, its CEO, Calvo Mawela, said in a podcast interview with TechCentral on Monday. Though the streaming product is unlikely to debut in 2018
eMedia Investments, the company that produces the 24-hour news channel eNCA for MultiChoice’s DStv, has announced it will launch a second news channel, called OpenNews, which will be available exclusively
Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao is leaving after a decade of retreating from aggressive global growth in favour of the European market, handing the reins to company veteran Nick Read. Colao, 56, will depart from the