In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod speaks on an Internet call with Cell C chief legal officer Graham Mackinnon about the multibillion-rand 3G and 4G/LTE roaming agreement his company has just signed with
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MTN South Africa plans to deploy 4G/LTE technology in the 900MHz band, sharing the relatively low-frequency spectrum with its 2G, 3G and Internet of things communications technologies
Operational profit margins at MTN South Africa have shown good improvement in the first quarter of 2018, the emerging-markets telecommunications group said on Thursday. In the three months to 31 March 2018, the South
MTN South Africa has launched a range of new, lower-cost social media data bundles designed specifically to work with apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Twitter. The plans, which start from R1/day, give customers
Although the vast majority of South Africa’s telecommunications and technology companies will pass on the 1% increase in the value-added tax rate — from 14% to 15% — from 1 April, some are bucking the trend
MTN has significantly increased the per-minute charges on certain “legacy” prepaid calling plans, though the company said the increases will only affect a subset of prepaid users and are in no way related to the VAT
Government must trust the free market to drive down prices and not create a new infrastructure monopoly by giving all unassigned broadband spectrum to a new wholesale operator. That’s the message from MTN
Government’s Electronic Communications Amendment Bill is unconstitutional, will create a new infrastructure monopoly in the form of a proposed wholesale open-access network and will ultimately be detrimental
MTN has launched the first 5G trial in South Africa – and in the broader Africa – in partnership with networking equipment vendor Ericsson. Last November, the operator’s principal rival, Vodacom, said it would launch a 5G trial in
MTN South Africa has cut out-of-bundle data rates to 29c/MB for the poor and all other users will in future pay a maximum of 60c/MB. The reductions offer savings of up to 80%, MTN said. The first of two new pricing tiers will see