Telecommunications group MTN has announced a new black economic empowerment scheme worth R9,9bn. News of the planned scheme, to be called MTN Zakhele Futhi, comes ahead of the November unwinding
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Telecommunications group MTN started a R9,9bn empowerment plan that will boost black ownership of its South African unit to more than 30% and allow Africa’s biggest mobile operator to bid for high-speed Internet
A network outage has hit MTN for the second time this year. The mobile operator said on Thursday that it is experiencing voice and data connectivity issues affecting some of its subscribers across the country. “Engineers are
The outcome of a meeting between the Communication Workers Union and MTN management on Tuesday could decide whether or not strike action commences. MTN staff are on the brink of a
Communications regulator Icasa was wrong to push ahead with a planned spectrum auction in the absence of government policy on the issue and should withdraw an invitation to operators to apply for access until that policy
Vodacom has become the first operator to respond to the aggressive new “FreeMe” tariff plans from Telkom. But the country’s biggest operator is not exactly shouting about its new “+ (Plus)” plans from the
The share price of Vodacom’s black economic empowerment scheme YeboYethu was down by nearly 5% on Thursday – with the telecommunication giant’s scheme marking its first day of trade on the JSE
The Communication Workers Union said on Thursday that strike action against MTN was imminent. This after the service provider announced its decision to outsource a portion of its call centre facility to a third-party
MTN’s plans to outsource a portion of its call centre facilities have been met with outrage by the Communications Workers Union, calling the decision a “jobs bloodbath”. On Wednesday, MTN announced
What more is there to say about MTN? It’s been an especially horrific 12 months for the company (and shareholders). But the group is sitting with a very large problem (to be fair, it has many others too): it is