MTN alone has been pushing 90 million Sim cards a year, and says the base is riddled with bad registrations.
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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.
Personal security for CEO Shameel Joosub cost Vodacom about R7.7-million in the 2026 financial year.










