Author: Duncan McLeod

Thank for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to MTN South Africa chief technology and information officer Giovanni Chiarelli about the operator’s 5G trial. In the podcast, Chiarelli

In this episode, Duncan McLeod talks to International Data Corp associate vice president Mark Walker and IDC research manager for IT services Jon Tullett about ICT opportunities in South Africa and the broader

The appointment of MTN group executive Chris Maroleng as new chief operating officer of the SABC is not yet cut and dried, it appears. The minister of communications, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, said in a statement on

Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba has fired his MMC of finance, Rabelani Dagada. He will also pursue criminal charges against Dagada. In a statement on Monday morning, Mashaba said he has taken the decision in consultation

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

John Kotsaftis, the founder and CEO of Showmax, has quit the video-on-demand streaming service provider owned by Naspers to join Fox Networks Group Asia, based in Singapore, where he will lead the development of subscription VOD

Mix Telematics was the best performing technology share on the JSE in 2017, TechCentral’s annual analysis of share price performances shows. The company, which provides fleet management and vehicle tracking services, saw its

Government’s radical Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce into law many aspects of the controversial national integrated ICT policy white paper, will undermine the industry and lead to poor and inadequate

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