MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
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DJ Zinhle’s Bestie Connect is a prepaid mobile network on MTN, aimed squarely at her followers.
Airtel’s Vittal, MTN’s Mupita and Vodafone’s Della Valle will lead the GSMA until December 2028.
Icasa says South Africa’s trade in second-hand network licences isn’t working and wants direct applications instead.
South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
Icasa wants mobile operators to check their subscribers’ fingerprints or faces against home affairs records.
Vodacom Group CTO Dejan Kastelic says South Africa could switch off 3G within two years if operators act together.
The solution cancels co-channel interference, helping MTN expand backhaul capacity at constrained sites.
A new policy direction asks Icasa to define essential facilities and sets out a dispute process that could pause roll-outs.
South Africa’s ISP body says neither the communications department nor Icasa seems able to lower the cost to communicate.