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MTN officials have told parliament that the release of available spectrum would, in theory, lower data costs. South Africa has yet to migrate to digital broadcasts, a key requirement for opening up radio

The South African government has allocated R2,5bn for a push to roll out broadband networks across the country over the next three years, a potential boon to telecommunications carriers such as Telkom. The first phase of the project will

Communications regulator Icasa should reconsider its plans to licence high-demand spectrum through an auction process.
In its current form, it will make our telecommunications market less competitive and lock out the

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

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