Vodacom’s latest numbers must be deeply worrying for its principal rival, MTN. While the latter is facing immense turmoil – a R75bn fine in Nigeria, the departure of its long-serving group CEO and
In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your podcast hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN’s troubles in Nigeria. Also on the show this week, we chat about Telkom’s due
Telkom’s possible acquisition of Cell C would result in a stronger competitor to Vodacom and MTN, according to Boyd Chislett, the MD of the soon-to-be-closed cellular service provider Altech Autopage. Telkom on Monday issued a market update
Sony announced this week that it will stop selling Betamax cassettes from March 2016. It was a format that appeared not to succeed as Sony had desired. Betamax was introduced by Sony on 16 April 1975 with the SL-6300 video cassette recorder deck
The development of smarter and more pervasive artificial intelligence (AI) is about to shift into overdrive with the announcement by Google this week that TensorFlow, its second-generation machine-learning system, will be made available free to anyone who wants
Before coming to the decision to shut down mobile service provider Altech Autopage, management considered the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) model. MVNOs ride on existing networks to provide phone, messaging and Internet services
Mobile service provider Altech Autopage has tried to mitigate retrenchments amid the company eyeing a February 2016 shutdown, said its MD. Parent Altron said in a cautionary announcement in May that it planned to sell the subscriber base
Contrary to global trends, South Africa’s small and medium enterprises are showing a decline in employment, turnover and a majority are struggling to survive. According to SBP’s 2015 SME Growth Index, just over one in five firms reported a decline in
When Vox Telecom CEO Jacques du Toit, an avid pilot, walks up to his Boeing Stearman, a 1942 biplane used by the US military for training and bombing missions, or up to his more modern, twin-engine Cessna 402, the world around him “switches off”, he says
From Cape Town to Thohoyandou, more than 3 000 public health facilites span South Africa. In rural areas, the distance between health facilities can span hundreds of kilometres often covered via poor roads. In places like these, the difference between a