The battle between Vodacom and Cell C dominates this week’s episode of TalkCentral, the business technology podcast brought to you by TechCentral. But we also find time to talk about a few other issues that caught our attention this week

TechCentral held its first pub quiz on Tuesday evening. The event, with Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou acting as quiz master for the evening, was a huge success. More than 80 geeks — and a few non-geeks

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) says it wants to work collaboratively with the new National Consumer Commission. The authority’s remarks come after reports suggested it

The next Apple or Google may be found among African telecommunications providers — if they take advantage of mobile applications and services where their Western counterparts haven’t

The governments of Brazil, China, Russia, India and SA have agreed to support a new, R3bn undersea cable that will connect Brazil with SA and Angola, and provide the region with onward connectivity

HTC, the Taiwanese handset manufacturer that recently overtook Nokia in terms of market value, is bringing a host of new Android smartphones to SA as it seeks to capitalise on its rapid international growth

State-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech has suspended six senior employees in an apparent effort by the new management team to demonstrate it will not tolerate deviation from proper procedure

Profit margins at IT group Business Connexion have crashed in the six months to 28 February, making it look highly unlikely it will meet an earlier target management set of achieving an 8% operating margin in

TechCentral has launched a new technology interview segment on the Tech@Work television show, broadcast every second Tuesday evening on channel 410 on DStv. In our first segment, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod talks to

State-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech is considering WiMax technology, using radio frequency spectrum it has already been assigned, to build its planned R1,1bn national broadband network. The company has already been licensed