MTN South Africa is having none of Telkom’s latest move that again threatens to derail South Africa’s much-anticipated spectrum auction.
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In a surprise development, MTN Group has announced the resignation of Godfrey Motsa, its South African CEO.
MTN South Africa chief technology and information officer Giovanni Chiarelli is stepping down after five years. He will leave the group at the end of the month.
Just a week after rival MTN said it would cut international roaming charges for accessing data services abroad, Vodacom has followed suit.
The battle between operators for the fixed-wireless home broadband market just stepped up a gear.
MTN South Africa has taken a knife to international data roaming charges, cutting the price from R2.50 to 99c/MB effective immediately. There are some caveats, though.
Following a “lengthy competitive process”, MTN Group will sell a big chunk of its South African tower portfolio to IHS Towers in a R6.4-billion deal.
Vodacom Group will spin off its South African tower portfolio into a separate business and may seek partners for the newly created entity.
Vodacom’s capital expenditure in South Africa jumped by 11.1% year on year, pushing spending on its network to R5.6-billion from R5-billion a year ago.
Telkom, Vodacom and MTN have withdrawn their legal action against the communications regulator over the planned withdrawal of temporarily assigned spectrum at the end of this month.