MTN has decreased voice and data tariffs by 58% and 73% respectively in the past five years, despite an increase in costs due to a struggling economy, the company has told parliament. The portfolio committee on telecommunications
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Excessive regulation, a business model that tried to do too much too soon and trust worries among consumers. These are the reasons Vodacom’s M-Pesa and MTN’s Mobile Money failed in South Africa, according to the CEO
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