Just three months after introducing a low-cost, 1GB WhatsApp data bundle costing only R10, MTN South Africa has hiked the price – for many users, at least – by 200%. Introduced in April, MTN said the price increase had
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MTN Group workers in South Africa are set to go on strike after a breakdown in wage talks with a key labour group. The Communications Workers Union sent MTN an intention to strike and 120 protesters gathered
MTN Group’s Nigeria offices are being picketed by the country’s biggest group of unions over an alleged refusal to allow staff to form workers’ groups, a claim denied by the continent’s largest wireless carrier
There will be more than a billion 5G subscriptions by the end of 2023 – just over five years from now – accounting for 12% of all mobile subscriptions, according to a new report from Ericsson. The company’s latest
It’s all rather academic at this stage, but Vodacom – like rival MTN – is keen to show off the capabilities of 5G wireless broadband technology. The company will use the upcoming Durban July to showcase the capabilities
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Neil Hamilton, vice president of a new Internet of things (IoT) provider in South Africa called Thingstream. Thingstream, which is part of a Swiss
And then there were none. At the dawn of 2018, three African phone tower companies had dreams of selling shares in London or New York. The most optimistic estimates pegged their potential combined valuation at
South Africans want data prices to fall. Instead, it’s the shares of the big listed telecommunications companies that are tumbling. Share prices have come under significant downward pressure in recent
IHS Towers has postponed an initial public offering that would have valued the company at as much as $10-billion (R135-billion), according to people familiar with the matter, because of concern that a sale
MTN and its technology partner, Ericsson, have achieved throughput of 1.6Gbit/s using 5G technology at the Gerotek skid pan outside Pretoria. Using 100MHz of spectrum in the 28GHz band, the