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One of MTN’s very first employees, Karel Pienaar, who has been with the telecommunications group for more than two decades and who was instrumental in the founding of the business, is stepping down. Pienaar was most recently group

The Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the sale of Altech Autopage’s subscriber bases to mobile operators Vodacom, MTN and Cell C be approved without

Government investment manager, the Public Investment Corp (PIC), has finalised its acquisition of the state’s 13,9% equity stake in Vodacom. Government is set to use the proceeds of the sale to the PIC to help fund Eskom. At the current share price

MTN has confirmed its willingness to engage in talks with the FF Plus after the party announced its intention to take complaints against the cellphone company to parliament. Corporate services executive at MTN South Africa Graham de Vries said although the company had not

Video-on-demand platform FrontRow, launched earlier this by MTN in partnership with Discover Digital, has been rebranded as VU, effective 1 December, and has cut its prices to match the competition. As with FrontRow before it, MTN subscribers’ data will be zero-rated (provided free) when they stream

The FF Plus has invited people who have unresolved billing and administrative problems with cellphone company MTN to come forward so it can ask parliament and the National Consumer Commission for help. FF Plus parliamentary spokesman on communications Anton Alberts said

Absa has partnered with MTN to allow subscribers to the telecommunications network operator to have zero-rated data access to the banking group’s Internet banking facilities. MTN clients will get zero-rated (free) access via Absa’s smartphone banking

President Jacob Zuma and his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, are set to meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss the US$5,2bn fine imposed by Nigerian authorities on South African telecommunications group MTN’s subsidiary in the West African nation, it was reported on Sunday

Naspers’s fledgling video-on-demand platform, ShowMax, will be expanded to three new continents in the coming year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The news wire cited an unnamed source as saying that the company is targeting more than