MTN, Africa’s largest mobile operator, has invested R22m to develop a power-generation plant that it says will halve its electricity costs. The new plant, which MTN dubs the “tri-generation plant”, will be driven by methane gas, which is plumbed directly into the plant from a gas pipeline 5km away from its head office in Fairlands, west of Johannesburg.
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MTN SA MD Karel Pienaar has apologised for the billing system debacle that resulted in thousands of its customers being…
Telkom, which will become SA’s fourth mobile network operator when it launches commercial wireless services later this year, will sign…
First came the news that Cell C is planning to sell its national network of base stations to a third-party tower operator. Now MTN SA, looking to cut costs, may begin selling space on its towers to competitors. Why, suddenly, is infrastructure sharing all the rage?
MTN’s recent reduction in peak-time prepaid call rates was a direct consequence of political pressure. And further price cuts are…
MTN SA is at an advanced stage of planning that will result in it opening its network of base stations…
Now that MTN has confirmed what was long suspected, that group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko is leaving for pastures new, talk…
SA’s three mobile operators, MTN, Vodacom and Cell C, will cut interconnection rates at the same time — by midnight…
Tensions are rising between SA’s mobile operators over interconnection fees. MTN SA CEO Karel Pienaar has slammed a proposal by…
TechCentral was on Tuesday morning asked to leave a meeting in Sandton, called by the Independent Communications Authority of SA…