Ten black women-owned ICT businesses will each receive R100 000 in funding and support.
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MTN alone has been pushing 90 million Sim cards a year, and says the base is riddled with bad registrations.
Group CEO Ralph Mupita wants an open system that routes tasks to the best frontier or open-weight AI models.
MTN Group faces a R3.9-billion write-down, cash it cannot move and a stake it cannot sell, just as Washington escalates.
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.
In recent quarters, MTN South Africa’s voice revenue has fallen by 2.8%, then 8%, then 9.6%. Its latest quarter is down again.
Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos, formerly MTN Group’s CIO, to the same role at the bank.










