Author: Duncan McLeod

Vodacom has launched a commercial LTE-Unlicensed, or LTE-U, site using unlicensed spectrum in the 5,8GHz band in a section of Sandton City, a large shopping centre in Johannesburg. However, even

South Africa is falling behind in broadband roll-out and access because of delays in allocating access to additional radio frequency spectrum bands to mobile operators, Vodacom warned on Monday. “Due to the country’s dependency on mobile

Strong demand for data services, underpinned by an aggressive investment in 3G and 4G/LTE network infrastructure, has led to a strong performance by Vodacom in the financial year ended 31 March 2016, results published on

Former Altech CEO Craig Venter, who quit the Altron group last year after 27 years working for the business started by his father Bill Venter, has lifted the lid on his new venture. The new company, ClickaBet, is a sports betting website that Venter

Large independent cellular service provider GloCell is in play, TechCentral has learnt from well-placed industry sources. A number of companies are believed to have expressed an interest

Telkom has begun a project that will eventually take its sprawling head office campus in Centurion, near Pretoria, completely off the grid. The project, the first phase of which involves the installation

Former Datatec chief financial officer Ivan Dittrich, who left the JSE-listed global IT group in 2012 to take the same position at telecommunications group Vodacom, replacing Rob Shuter, is returning to his old job. Datatec said

Econet and subsea cable operator Seacom are courting Neotel with the view to a potential acquisition, it was reported on Tuesday. The news comes after Vodacom was forced to walk away from its R7bn plan to buy Neotel

South Africa’s Naspers, and its subsidiary MultiChoice, may soon forfeit the generic top-level domains they applied for in 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as Icann

Most companies have heard of the Internet of things, the idea that a vast network of objects, from cameras to air conditioners, can be connected to the Internet to create a vast network of controllable