Vodacom said on Thursday that is has achieved 80% population coverage with 4G/LTE and claimed to be the first operator in South Africa to reach this target. Its 3G and 2G population coverage is 99.78% and
The department of telecommunications & postal services is actively redrafting the controversial Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, with the minister, Siyabonga Cwele, set to outline more details in the
MTN Group expects the listing of its Nigerian unit on the Lagos stock exchange to be done by the end of 2018, its CEO said, after suggesting late last year that the process would be concluded by mid-year
On this episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about Huawei’s new smartphones, the P20 and P20 Pro, after having some hands-on time with the Chinese company’s new devices. Also this
MTN Group’s sustainability report for 2017 shows just how environmentally polluting the telecommunications industry can be, despite ongoing efforts to reduce carbon emissions. For example, the JSE-listed group
MTN is not shy to pay its newly constituted management team the big bucks, the telecommunications group’s 2017 annual report shows. The report, published on Thursday, reveals that MTN’s new group CEO
Orange plans to distribute as many as 20 000 solar kits in four African countries in partnership with UK-based renewable energy firm BBOXX as an increasing number of companies seek to roll out off-grid solar power
A record wave of stock is heading for Ghana’s market as MTN Group is said to prepare to sell a chunk of its local unit to investors for about $790m (R9.2bn). The shares should be snapped up, the country’s
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 Group’s Ghanaian unit lifted its target for an upcoming initial public offering by more than a half to 3.48bn cedis (R9.3bn), according to two people familiar with the matter. Africa’s biggest mobile phone company