In the latest episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg ask whether ADSL is dying. Also this week, MTN achieves 400Mbit/s over LTE, rumours about the next iPhone, Jeff Bezos may soon be the world’s richest man and the Nasdaq cracks
MTN South Africa, working with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei, has trialled an LTE Licensed-Assisted Access network at a test site in Pretoria. The mobile operator claimed on Friday that
WorldRemit, a British money-transfer operator, sees revenue from transactions involving Africans doubling by 2020 as more people on the continent access mobile payment platforms and expatriates send cash home. The seven-year-old
Vodacom’s revamped Smart+ and Red+ integrated packages have seen increases in data, voice and SMS allocations across the board. And, in the case of its Smart packages – ranging from the R199 (200MB) to R699 (1GB) level
The Competition Commission has decided not to prosecute Vodacom and MTN following a complaint by Cell C that its two bigger rivals had acted anticompetitively. The case goes all the way back to October 2013, when Cell C
Internet Solutions (IS) is, according to Bloomberg, in talks to buy Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) from Remgro, majority owner (51%) of DFA-parent Community Investment Ventures. The report last week suggested that the sellers want as much as
A financial accountant at MTN has been arrested by the Hawks for allegedly stealing almost R24m from the mobile operator over a 21-month period starting in July 2015. According to a statement by the
Vula Investments, the energy and telecommunications investment vehicle chaired by Mark Headbush – a key figure behind the launch of Wireless Business Solutions and iBurst – has revealed plans to
Newly appointed Altron CEO Mteto Nyati has moved quickly to stamp his authority on the listed technology company, naming a new executive committee and scrapping “redundant” positions. The idea behind the restructuring is to
Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao is optimistic that a breakthrough is near regarding government’s controversial ICT policy white paper, saying a “hybrid” model proposed by local mobile operators, including Vodafone
