Anyone who has recently spent time in Kenya, Zimbabwe or Tanzania will have noticed the pervasive influence of mobile money on everyday life. People use it for a wide range of purposes from buying airtime to paying taxi drivers to making loan repayments
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In what could prove be a significant development, MTN has now said it supports the concept of open-access networks for the deployment of fibre-to-the-home infrastructure in South Africa. It said it believes that an open-access business model
Mobile operators MTN and Cell C are both giving serious consideration to taking communications regulator Icasa to court over its decision to approve the transfer of Neotel’s licences to rival Vodacom
The strike at MTN South Africa by members of the Communication Workers Union is finally over, said MTN’s newly appointed SA CEO, Mteto Nyati, on Thursday. “The agreement serves the common interests of MTN and the employees, and allows
The strike that at MTN, which began on 20 May, is finally over, the telecommunications operator said on Thursday. “MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati today announced an agreement with
Former Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati has been appointed as the new CEO of MTN South Africa, a spokesman for the telecommunications operator said on Monday. Nyati, who was appointed as group head of MTN’s enterprise business in
Ahmad Farroukh is leaving as CEO of MTN South Africa to take up the top job at Saudi Arabia’s second largest telecommunications operator, Etihad Etisalat, which trades at Mobily. Farroukh, who has been CEO of MTN for the
It seems that on a monthly basis we hear of a “revolution” in the mobile device industry, either from manufacturers touting the latest and greatest flagship smartphone or from analysts punting the
So, Ahmad Farroukh, MTN South Africa’s CEO of the past 11 months, is leaving at the end of July. His tenure has been rocky, to say the least. He was brought in to turn around the troubled operator
A group of striking MTN workers on Friday blocked 14th Avenue in Fairlands, north of Johannesburg, said metro police. The workers were demanding bigger bonuses and annual salary increases. Chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar said: “The road is