In the first episode of TalkCentral for 2018, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN’s 5G trial. Also this week, they discuss the best and worst performing tech shares on the JSE and the chip security debacle. And HTC
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MTN has launched the first 5G trial in South Africa – and in the broader Africa – in partnership with networking equipment vendor Ericsson. Last November, the operator’s principal rival, Vodacom, said it would launch a 5G trial in
MTN on Monday took the wraps off the first 5G trial by a mobile operator in South Africa. The company was able to demonstrate throughput speeds of more than 20Gbit/s (that’s over 20 000Mbit/s!) in a controlled test environment
The average speed of streaming on Netflix in South Africa lags behind major developed markets, though the country is almost on par with India and Brazil. Statistics from the global video-on-demand provider show that
MTN Business and Huawei have launched a usage-based product for insuring drivers. Initially using MTN’s 2G and 3G network, the intention is to use the mobile operator’s Internet-of-things network when it offers
Telecommunications & postal services director-general Robert Nkuna said on Tuesday that government does not want to destroy South Africa’s big telecoms operators, despite strong objections to draft legislation that the
Telecommunications operators, Internet service providers and other interested parties have been given a little more time to provide feedback on government’s planned radical changes to legislation governing the ICT sector. The proposed
MTN South Africa has cut out-of-bundle data rates to 29c/MB for the poor and all other users will in future pay a maximum of 60c/MB. The reductions offer savings of up to 80%, MTN said. The first of two new pricing tiers will see
Three of Africa’s largest telecommunications towers companies plan to pursue share sales in either London or New York early next year, taking advantage of high industry valuations to fund expansion, according to people familiar
The Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, approved by cabinet earlier this month, does not address the telecommunications industry’s “urgent need to access available spectrum”, Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has