Taking a selfie during the #ENDSARS protest in Lagos in 2020. Social media was used extensively to mobilise demontrators. Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNigeria’s decision to...
South Africa's biggest networks are fighting it out for market share, with nearly 104 million mobile subscribers among them.
MTN Group will bid again for a Ethiopian operating telecommunications licence in the second round if mobile financial services are included, its CEO, Ralph Mupita, said on Friday after...
MTN has announced entries are now open for its annual Business App of the Year Awards for aspiring developers and entrepreneurs. In 2020, the... The post Entries open for MTN Business App of...
Parliament's register of member's interests reveals interesting gifts from Vodacom, MTN, and Telkom - including a bottle of 18-year-old Glenfiddich single malt whisky.
President Cyril Ramaphosa hit out at telecommunications companies for bringing legal action against plans to issue more broadband spectrum, urging them to resolve the matter.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hit out at mobile phone companies for bringing legal action against plans to issue more broadband spectrum.
MTN South Africa has renewed its sponsorship of the Springboks for a five-year period in a deal understood to be worth hundreds of millions of rand.
By Christiana Sciaudone Investing.com -- Vail Resorts (NYSE:MTN) rose close to 2% to a record after getting called a buy idea at Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn). Demand for the mountain is...
Iran’s efforts to remove US-led sanctions from its economy could allow MTN Group to repatriate about R2.8-billion from the country, according to people familiar with the matter.
In 2019 MTN debuted the ability for its customers to buy airtime directly through popular chat app WhatsApp. The feature was the first of its kind in South Africa, and now the mobile...
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has revealed why they are really fighting against ICASA’s planned spectrum auction.
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has made a three-day visit to Ghana and launched major projects that the operator aims to achieve by 2022, Ecofin reported. It intends to improve and expand...
MTN Group CEO, Ralph Mupita has revealed that the telco would consider bidding for the second Ethiopian operating licence after initially losing to Safaricom. “We took an approach that the...
Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has delivered scathing criticism of the South African government's inability to follow-through on the country's plans to migrate from analogue to digital TV...
MTN has joined forces with Ozow so that subscribers can purchase data and airtime directly through WhatsApp – an industry-first in South Africa. “Giving customers the ability to transact...
Communications regulator Icasa on Thursday decided to extend the emergency allocation of temporary spectrum under the Covid-19 state of disaster regulations until the end of August.
Phone numbers in South Africa include useful information such as the source location of a call and to which mobile network a phone number is subscribed.
South Africa’s spy agency is beefing up its economic intelligence unit so it can play a proactive role in supporting the nation’s companies as they expand beyond their home base.
South Africa’s spy agency is beefing up its economic intelligence unit so it can play a proactive role in supporting the nation’s companies, like Sasol and MTN, as they expand beyond their...
South Africa’s spy agency is beefing up its economic intelligence unit so it can play a proactive role in supporting the nation’s companies as they expand beyond their home base
South Africa’s spy agency is beefing up its economic intelligence unit so it can play a proactive role in supporting the nation’s companies as they expand beyond their home base.
MTN has officially completed its Coastal National Long Distance (NLD) fibre cable project. The fibre route starts in Cape Town, and runs along the N2, moves through Gqeberha and East London...
Brand Finance Africa has revealed South Africa’s most valuable brands, which ranks two telecoms players at the top.
Telkom is open to reaching an out-of-court settlement with communications regulator Icasa over the spectrum auction, though little progress has been made in any talks.
MTN subscribers are sitting ducks in a new Me2U Money scam where criminals steal thousands from users and bypass bill limits to maximize their takings.
Vodafone’s consortium, which includes Safaricom of Kenya and the UK carrier’s South African unit Vodacom Group, submitted a bid of $850 million (R11.8bn).
Telkom and MTN have partnered to offering roaming services in Nigeria, but users will have to pay up to 10,000 times more than local rates for data services.
Mondia has launched Getmo Games – a new gaming service for MTN Nigeria subscribers. Getmo Games is expected to offer unlimited Android and online HTML5 games to subscribers, based on an...
MTN Group has partnered with the International Finance Corporation to train mobile money agents across South Africa to target unbanked and underbanked segments of the population.
MTN South Africa has announced a $2 million (R28 million) partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to expand its Mobile Money (MoMo)...
Telkom’s legal challenge against ICASA's spectrum action is a delaying tactic that is holding South Africa’s mobile network operators back from providing better and cheaper broadband...
Vodacom Group is expanding its financial and e-commerce services in South Africa through a partnership with AliPay, seeking to accelerate growth in a market hampered by a lack of new...
MTN South Africa is expanding its EverydayGigs data bundles as a convenient way for prepaid customers to stay connected by paying once and getting allocated with 1GB of data daily without...
MTN South Africa has cut the effective price of prepaid data and voice calls with amendments to its EverydayGigs plan and by introducing a new plan called EverydayTalk.
MTN has cut the price of some of its EverydayGigs prepaid data products and added new products, including 60GB and 90GB bundles.
Cell C has migrated its prepaid customers in two provinces to MTN's network, while the majority of its contract and broadband customers are now roaming on Vodacom’s network.
Ethiopia’s decision to exclude mobile money from the terms of two new telecommunications licences cost the government about R7-billion from bid levels, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said.
Helios Towers plans to use an expansion into Oman to further its presence in the Middle East and North Africa, while it is also eyeing a potential deal in South Africa with MTN Group.
Business no longer looks the same and MTN is adapting, for you.
Nhleko, a former CEO of MTN, led the company during its expansion into the continent, a period that cemented its position as Africa's leading mobile telecommunications service...
Former MTN Group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko has been appointed as non-executive director of the JSE from 1 July and will take on the additional role of chairing the board from next year.
If you invested in South Africa’s major telecommunications companies three years ago, you would have lost a large chunk of your money.
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Supersonic has launched a coverage map for its recently launched uncapped AirFibre service – here is where you can get it.
(Updates to reflect afternoon trade)JOHANNESBURG, May 5 (Reuters) - The South African rand gained on Wednesday afternoon, as the U.S. dollar eased off a more than two-week high hit earlier...
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