Cellphone service providers Vodacom and MTN are having serious network problems, with many customers unable to make calls or send text messages.
Mobile phone operators MTN and Vodacom are on track to meet a June deadline for registering users for Rica, part of an effort against crime.
Telkom’s mobile operator, 8ta, has dropped a bomb on its rivals by introducing a broadband offering of 10GB of data a month for R199 for 24 months.
MTN is positioned to take advantage of opportunistic deal-making activity due to the high levels of cash on its books, the company has said.
Mobile operator MTN said on Sunday it had resolved a fee row with the government of Guinea that saw the West African country seize its assets there.
MTN added more than 5,7-million users in the first quarter boosted by strong growth in key markets of Nigeria and Iran.
South Africa’s MTN Group said on Thursday its outgoing chief executive officer Phuthuma Nhleko will step down as director of the group.
South Africa’s MTN Group posted a 20% rise in full-year profit on Wednesday and sharply lifted its dividend payment.
MTN Group, Africa’s largest cellphone operator, said it expects full-year earnings to rise by as much as 23%.
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/ 21 February 2011
Thinking of giving Heita a whirl? Here’s how it stacks up against its competitors.
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/ 21 December 2010
Former journalist and 2010 Soccer World Cup spokesperson Rich Mkhondo has been appointed as head of MTN’s corporate affairs division.
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/ 20 December 2010
Africa’s largest mobile operator MTN on Monday said it had appointed Sifiso Dabengwa as its chief executive officer, to replace Phuthuma Nhelko.
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/ 26 November 2010
The MTN Group’s empowerment transaction has raised R2,78-billion and had more applications than it had shares available.
MTN decided to back ‘Pitch & Polish’ because it believes that SA’s innovation engine is the cornerstone to a dynamic culture of entrepreneurship.
The MTN Group delivered a sound operational performance for the six months ended June 30 2010, increasing subscribers by 11,4% to 129,2-million.
MTN Group on Thursday proposed an R8,1-billion black empowerment deal to sell up to 4% of the company’s shares.
MTN on Monday denied it is in talks with Loop Telecom after a report said it was looking to buy a stake in the Indian mobile operator.
Shares in Africa’s biggest cellphone operator, MTN, rose more than 4% on Thursday after the collapse of talks with Egypt’s Orascom Telecom.
SA’s corporates pour a lot of funding into the arts, but this can become a double-edged sword, as was the case with Swaziland’s Bushfire Festival.
South Africa’s first interconnect rate cut in eight years has translated into a meager 2% cost decrease for the average business contract subscriber.
South Africa’s MTN Group confirmed on Wednesday it is in talks with Orascom Telecom’s parent to buy the Egyptian firm, or some of its assets.
MTN acknowledged on Friday it was in talks about a potential deal.
South Africa’s telecoms regulator has finally taken the bull by the horns and has announced its plan to regulate interconnection rates.
Telkom and cellphone operator MTN have concluded a national roaming agreement, the parties said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Businessman claims that Standard Bank and MTN infringed the patent on his firm’s transaction authorisation system.
MTN and Standard Bank face a claim of close to R1-billion for infringement of technology patents in their MTN Banking joint venture, it was reported.
MTN, Africa’s biggest cellphone operator by subscribers, posted lower 2009 profit despite its new customers increasing by 28% to 116-million.
Phuthuma Nhleko, CEO of cellphone group MTN, will step down as CEO and group president in March 2011, the group said on Monday.
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/ 20 November 2009
Siphiwe Nyanda may have won the first interconnection battle, but the war is still on, writes Lloyd Gedye.
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/ 16 November 2009
MTN SA plans to reduce its permanent and temporary workforce as a result of the decline in the economic environment, the company said on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2009
Thanks for nothing. That’s what consumers should be saying to Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda.