The money MTN paid its top executive management team, including its former CEO Sifiso Dabengwa, jumped to R165,6m in the 2015 financial year. That’s an increase of 18,8% over the R139,4m it paid in 2014, driven higher by three golden
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As government drags its heels on formulating a policy on so-called high-demand spectrum – the radio frequencies that can be used to deliver next-generation mobile broadband networks
Concerns are growing in the telecommunications industry that government plans to abandon the nearly universal model of auctioning off precious radio frequency spectrum to private-sector operators, instead allocating it to a single wholesale provider in which
MTN South Africa has appointed its chief marketing officer Larry Annetts to the newly created position of chief consumer officer. The move is meant to help MTN improve service quality and provide customers with a “distinct experience”, the
MTN South Africa has taken an impairment charge of R592m related to over-spending on handsets in 2015. Parent MTN Group revealed in its annual results, published on Thursday, that
MTN’s video-on-demand strategy in the South African market has not worked as expected and will now be radically overhauled. That’s the word from MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati, who was speaking
MTN’s South African subsidiary increased its profit margin, calculated using earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, by 1,3 percentage points to 33,4%, suggesting a solid turnaround in the operation, which has underperformed in recent years
MTN South Africa has appointed Benjamin Marais as its new chief information officer, effective 1 March 2016. Marais, who joins MTN from Discovery Health, where he served in a similar role, replaces Neil Tomkinson, who is moving into a role at group level
South Africa’s two biggest mobile networks are gearing up to attend parliamentary hearings on possible regulation of over-the-top services. Vodacom and MTN will attend hearings on 26 January at which
Over-the-top services such as Internet messaging application WhatsApp, are eating Vodacom’s “lunch” but the company has no plan to block the service. This is according to group CEO Shameel Joosub.