Altech Autopage MD Boyd Chislett has tendered his resignation and will leave the cellular service provider, and the Altron group, at the end of March. Chislett confirmed to TechCentral via telephone on Tuesday that he is stepping down

Over-the-top platforms such as WhatsApp and Skype don’t pay taxes in South Africa, says mobile network MTN. MTN’s corporate services executive, Graham de Vries, made this claim in a presentation at a parliamentary meeting on Tuesday. The meeting discussed

A single mother should not have to worry about having enough funds to pay for e-tolls at the end of the month, on top of everything else. This was one of the arguments that the

Parliament’s discussions about regulating over-the-top services kicked off on Tuesday with an expert saying that networks fear becoming pure infrastructure players. OTT services such

Rand Merchant Bank Holdings (RMBH) and Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings have launched a new hub for “next-generation financial services entrepreneurs” in Sandton. Called

GroTech, a fund with an appetite for high growth, disruptive technology companies, is betting on the fact that Goliaths just aren’t that good at innovating. It would rather back the Davids that can do it

The Internet Service Providers’ Association says South Africa’s mobile operators need to develop new ways of partnering and competing with “over-the-top” services such as Skype and WhatsApp instead of trying to have them regulated. In a statement

South African start-up ReWare, which has been launched by the same team that brought Spain’s Zwipit to South Africa, is helping bring older-generation high-end phones, including Apple iPhones

African mobile and Internet television pioneer iRoko on Monday announced it has concluded multiple deals worth a combined US$19m (about R312m) to secure new content and raise additional funding. The Lagos, Nigeria-headquartered

If you heard that a group of people were creating, editing, and maintaining Wikipedia articles related to brands, firms and individuals, you could point out, correctly, that this is the entire point of Wikipedia. It is, after all, the “encyclopaedia that anyone can