Browsing: Duncan McLeod

We’re back after a lengthy break, and we have a bumper episode lined up for your listening pleasure. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Net1 UEPS Technologies CEO Serge Belamant’s fake degree, the latest on MTN in Nigeria and government’s

I was on a flight – my tenth or twelfth of the year, I forget – so I missed the president’s state of the nation address. In it, the word “broadband” was mentioned only twice, roughly about the same number of mentions it garners every year. “Government,” we were told

President Jacob Zuma has drawn criticism for his failure to deal meaningfully with broadband roll-out in his 2016 state of the nation address delivered in parliament on Thursday evening. Throughout his more than hour-long speech, the

In the first episode of the TalkCentral podcast for 2016, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Netlflix’s arrival in South Africa and its threat to block those using virtual private networking technology to access the US version

In the last TalkCentral of 2015, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN’s decision to appeal to the Nigerian courts to have its record-setting fine reduced. Also this week, they discuss the news that Vodacom must withdraw

In the latest episode of TalkCentral, podcast hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the latest goings-on at MTN, including the reduced (and then increased again) fine in Nigeria and the unrelated resignation of company stalwart Karel Pienaar

It’s time to call the situation South African telecommunications group MTN is facing in Nigeria what it really is: a state-sanctioned mugging. The Nigerian government, through its communications commission, is pointing a gun at MTN’s head, demanding that it hand

Something significant transpired on Friday last week that prompted South Africa’s largest telecommunications operator, Vodacom, to review the structure of its acquisition of Neotel, a

We shake up the format a little in TalkCentral this week, introducing a quiz to the show and making some other changes. But the focus is still what’s happening in the world of technology, and your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the 30th anniversary of Windows