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Free-to-air broadcasters SABC and e.tv are up in arms after an audit found the viewership figures provided by the South African Audience Research Foundation (Saarf) in recent years were allegedly inaccurate. The broadcasters claim this has cost them hundreds of millions of rand in lost advertising
Shares in MTN powered higher on Thursday afternoon after it lost to Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom in the race to win one of two potentially highly lucrative licences on offer to build mobile telecommunications networks in Myanmar. In late afternoon trading, MTN
South African-headquartered mobile phone operator MTN has failed to secure an operating licence in Myanmar, it said on Thursday. The two licences that were up for grabs have gone to Norway’s Telenor and Qatar Telecom. MTN received notification from that country’s telecommunications operator
MTN has launched a new suite of cloud-based business software applications in partnership with Germany’s SAP and South African software services company Britehouse. MTN Business ERP solution offers SAP’s Business One cloud-based software to its business customers and to resellers
Nine months after Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub hinted that the mobile operator was keen to build fibre-to-the-home broadband networks in South Africa, more details have emerged of its plans in this regard. Executive head of access solutions at Vodacom, Janine Rebelo
No suspects have been identified in connection with the hacking of the SA Police Service website last month, police minister Nathi Mthethwa revealed on Wednesday. Mthethwa said the investigation was still underway and the level of threat to identified whistleblowers was not yet known
MTN South Africa chief technical officer Lambo Kanagaratnam is moving to a new role at the operator. Effective immediately, he will head up its enterprise business division. Airtel Africa chief technology officer Eben Albertyn has taken the reins from Kanagaratnam. Albertyn was formerly chief technology officer for MTN
Competition between mobile operators is keeping data prices down. MTN South Africa has extended its cut-price data tariffs for prepaid and contract customers until the end of September.
MTN has also introduced a further price reduction on its 500MB Internet bundle, reducing it from R119 to R99. The
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee was meant to hear a complaint laid against Screamer Telecoms this week but has had to postpone the matter until September because its star witness, Sebastian Meyer, who investigated
Copper theft decreased in May, the South African Chamber of Commerce of Industry (Sacci) said on Tuesday. According to the Sacci Copper Theft Barometer, copper worth R9m was stolen in May, compared to R10m in April. This was the lowest level since the barometer’s inception, and was a clear indication that
