It’s been less than a decade since Apple shook the mobile telecommunications industry to its foundations with the original iPhone. The handset helped turn Apple into the world’s most valuable company (US$620bn this week) and inflicted huge
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It’s podcast time! Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg gather around the mic to discuss the week’s biggest local and international tech news. This week, they chat about South Africa’s never-ending digital
It may seem that investors in MTN Zakhele, MTN’s black economic empowerment scheme, are pricing in risk given the sell-off leading up to the scheme’s expiry in November. Over the past month, the share price of
Four months after rival Vodacom South Africa pulled the plug on its mobile payments platform M-Pesa, MTN South Africa is doing the same with its Mobile Money offering. The move by MTN comes just two weeks after news emerged that
MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator by sales, rose for a second day after raising more than US$1,3bn (R18,6bn) in loans before the potential sale of bonds. The shares jumped 2,2% to R121,49 as of 12.29pm in Johannesburg
MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile phone operator by sales, said it entered three loan agreements, raising more than US$1,3bn as the company markets a potential bond sale. The company is being
Internet service provider Afrihost’s management team, fresh from buying back the company from mobile operator MTN, is moving to shake up the fixed-line broadband market, providing capped digital subscriber line users 18 hours
Nigeria has the largest population in Africa and one of the biggest in the world. It boasts dynamic, entrepreneurial, ambitious and well educated people. The country was, until recently, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, prompting
MTN Group plans to gauge investor interest in a possible bond offering as Africa’s biggest mobile phone company by sales seeks funds to pay for dividends, capital expenditure and a record 330bn naira fine in Nigeria. The wireless operator
MTN Group and financial services provider MMI Holdings have announced they’re creating a new joint venture, branded aYo, to deliver micro insurance solutions across Africa. Insurance penetration is low