MTN Business is launching a pan-African “Internet of things” (IoT) platform to provide advanced management features for connected devices and Sim cards and allow for networked devices to exchange information and perform actions. The platform
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Cell C has declared war on Vodacom and MTN, taking direct aim at its bigger rivals with an offer to buy out their post-paid subscribers from their contracts up to the value of R10 000. The operator
Cell C’s CEO Jose Dos Santos says an initiative to give customers up to R10 000 to help buy themselves out of contracts with other networks could last longer than just four months. The mobile
Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos on Wednesday vowed to fight Vodacom’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel and to do its best to torpedo the deal in the legal system. “We will keep them in court
Big changes are sweeping through the management corridors at MTN Group, with a former top Vodacom managing executive, digital financial services expert Herman Singh, set to take the leading
JSE-listed technology group Altron is in advanced-stage discussions to sell the mobile subscribers of Altech Autopage. It’s a move that comes just a year after Nashua Mobile, owned by Reunert, concluded a similar transaction. Altron has been
Mobile phone towers have become big business across Africa as rising costs mean it is less appealing for network operators to manage and maintain the infrastructure. A trend to outsourcing them, which started a few years ago, is gaining rapid momentum
Services at telecommunications operator MTN’s Gallo Manor data centre in Johannesburg were negatively affected on Tuesday following a cyber attack. MTN says the data centre was hit by a series of distributed denial of service
Telkom surprised the telecommunications industry last week, announcing sweeping price cuts to its wholesale broadband services that should lead to real reductions in retail fixed-line Internet prices. The cuts – which are said to go well beyond what
South Africa has not been particularly keen on the mobile virtual network operator model. It’s lagged most developed and some developing markets in launching mobile brands on the back of cellular