Browsing: MTN South Africa

MTN South Africa’s network availability was hit by recent load shedding, but the company still managed to lift subscriber growth in the first half.

MTN South Africa plans to restructure its finance division, with possible layoffs to follow, a move that has been severely criticised by trade union Solidarity.

Criminals, angry that they aren’t able to steal MTN’s highly secured batteries, have taken to trashing other infrastructure at its base stations.

Promoted | The merging of the physical and virtual worlds, known colloquially as the “metaverse”, will have all but taken over by 2030, writes MTN chief digital officer Ernst Fonternel.

Promoted | MTN Business has appointed MIA Telecoms as its aggregator for the management of new resellers and partners.

The idea of a pan-African telecoms champion that has a large shareholding by the South African government looks likely to grease the political wheels of MTN’s audacious bid to buy Telkom.

Keabetswe Modimoeng said MTN Group’s proposed acquisition of rival Telkom should be considered seriously by regulators.

Mteto Nyati, a former CEO of MTN South Africa and until recently group CEO of Altron, has joined the board of Telkom.

MTN South Africa has provided more granular detail about where it plans to deploy 5G sites in South Africa this year.

Telkom is considering all “viable” options for its towers and masts business, Swiftnet, including the sale of a majority stake in the company.