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Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the Woan spectrum reservation, leaving Icasa free to license the idle frequencies.

The CEO who rebuilt Cell C from near-collapse has put R20.8-million of his own money in.

South Africa’s two biggest MVNOs have a lot in common. What separates them is who banks with them.

CEO Ferdi Moolman says MTN’s home market shares almost none of the economics of its other operations.

Under MTN’s new wholesale model, an MVNO that wants aggressive retail pricing can have it, but there’s a catch.

R46.2-billion of prepaid electricity moved through the group in the year to May, up 4%. The commission it earned fell 13%.

MTN’s network spending in South Africa fell 17.1% while Nigeria received nearly three times as much in capital investments.

MTN South Africa cut airtime credit from 42% of prepaid recharges to about 34% over the past year.

MTN South Africa lost 1.1 million prepaid users between March and June as it purged credit-dependent customers.

Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has told TechCentral that the big two would cannibalise themselves chasing MVNOs.