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First National Bank is stepping up its foray into the mobile telecommunications industry, launching its own-branded smartphones. The low-cost but “high-quality” ConeXis X1 and A1 phones will be available

Telkom’s FreeMe looks to be the most competitive data-focused offering in the market, especially when put next to similar packages on the three larger mobile operators. When the new packages from South Africa’s “challenger” network are

Cell C’s mobile virtual network operator platform, which allows other brands to launch mobile services using its network infrastructure, has attracted more than a million end-user customers, the telecommunications operator said on Monday. Brands such as

MTN South Africa will allow mobile virtual network operators to piggyback on its network, becoming the second mobile provider in South Africa after Cell C to offer such a platform

First National Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, FNB Connect, has announced it is zero-rating its customers’ WhatsApp data traffic. It’s the second operator in South Africa, after Cell C, to introduce zero-rated WhatsApp. All data

First National Bank activated 4G/LTE on its mobile network on Monday without much fanfare. The move comes after the bank launched its own mobile network, FNB Connect, in June last year. FNB Connect is a mobile virtual network operator that makes use of

First National Bank’s mobile virtual network operator business, FNB Connect, has hit a subscriber milestone. The financial services group said on Monday that it now has 100 000 active Sims on its network, five months after launch. FNB Connect CEO Ravesh Ramlakan

Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) me&you mobile has performed well in Tariffic’s latest quarterly “perfect package tracker”, offering the best packages in three of five user categories modelled by the company. Tariffic’s latest quarterly tracker

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warning over Cell C’s R2bn of unsecured debt is is no cause for concern to the head of First National Bank’s new mobile network. FNB will become the first bank in South Africa to launch a mobile network when

On 15 June, First National Bank will become the first major banking brand in South Africa to launch a mobile virtual network operator and take on South Africa’s incumbent mobile operators. Years in the