“It’s difficult to let go.” Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN’s group president and CEO, sounds almost rueful when I ask him why…
In an article in the 1 December 2005 edition of Fortune magazine, Paul LaMonica wrote that the new AT&T (just merged with SBC) was “not worth buying”. He anticipated declining margins due to fierce competition. He worried that the company was a “middle weight” in the mobile phone industry. And he fretted that it
Communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda is in the spotlight again over his apparent penchant for lavish spending of taxpayers’ money. According…
First National Bank has finally confirmed what SA Internet users have long suspected. The banking group is partnering with online…
JSE-listed cellphone group MTN plans to spend almost US$200m (R1,5bn) in total on high-capacity undersea cables serving markets in Africa…
Listed cellphone operator MTN is “struggling” with its operations in SA, consultancy Frost & Sullivan said on Thursday. Earlier, MTN…
A special inter-ministerial committee is to be set up to finalise government’s broadband policy, government spokesman Themba Maseko said on…
In a recent interview with TechCentral, Owen Dean of specialist intellectual property lawfirm Spoor & Fisher urges that SA should ratify a treaty that requires anti-circumvention provisions meant to stop copyright infringement
MTN SA continued to lose market share in the second half of 2009, shedding 6,4% of its subscriber base during…
SA consumers, used to high prices for telecommunications, must be rubbing their hands in glee. The cost of broadband and voice telephony has begun falling, in some cases dramatically, as competition finally begins to take effect