In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about government’s workshop on the Electronic Communications Act and the planned wholesale open-access network. Also this week, a look at MTN’s
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Africa’s biggest mobile phone company is doing a spring clean of its empire. MTN Group said on Thursday it’s conducting a review to decide whether it really needs to be in all 22 of its markets across Africa and the Middle
Vodacom and MTN should not be given any additional exclusive-use broadband spectrum to expand their networks, despite the two operators increasingly running up against network constraints, Telkom said in
I must admit I’m a little surprised by Telkom’s call this week at a high-stakes government workshop for all unassigned broadband spectrum to be allocated to a single wholesale network provider. I’m surprised because Sipho Maseko
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
MTN shares were trading down more than 3% on Monday morning on the JSE after the telecommunications group told shareholders that its full-year 2017 earnings would be affected by a number of once-off and non-cash items
Civil society groups Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition have blasted government’s plan to create a wholesale open-access network, or Woan, saying in a submission to the department of telecommunications
The buffering wheel on mobile-device screens could be the most-watched entertainment if pending legislation cripples South Africa’s dynamic cellphone sector. Should the monopoly wireless network that is the
MTN has lost a complaint against rival Vodacom at the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) over the latter’s claim in newspaper advertisements that it has the best network. The ads, which appeared on
MTN has emerged as Africa’s most valuable telecommunications brand, according to a new research report by brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance. The MTN brand is worth US$3.3bn, up 9% from