In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about MTN’s aggressive expansion plans in the enterprise IT market, including its plans to make acquisitions. Also in this week’s podcast, your
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MTN’s newly appointed group chief enterprise officer, Mteto Nyati – until recently MD of Microsoft South Africa – has been given a big target to chase. In the next three years, he has to build the mobile operator’s enterprise
The Competition Commission has recommended the approval of MTN’s acquisition of a majority stake in Afrihost. It won’t impose any conditions on its support of the deal, it said on Wednesday. TechCentral reported in early June that the
MTN has introduced a reverse-charge call feature on its network, allowing customers who have, for example, run out of airtime to make a call that is billed to the recipient. The service, called MTN Pay4Me, notifies the calling party that they’ll be paying for the call, allowing them to accept or
MTN South Africa, battered in recent years by the price war in the mobile industry, is showing signs that it could be on the mend. In the third quarter of 2014, it grew its subscriber base by 5,7% to 26,7m. That’s 1,4m net additions for the quarter. It says the growth was the result of “competitive offers
The ongoing restructuring in the information and communications technology industry puts employees under immense pressure, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. “There have been far more retrenchments this year than in
A senior executive at Vodacom believes so-called over-the-top (OTT) service providers such as WhatsApp and Skype should be allowed to “run free” on mobile operators’ networks, but emphasises that there is also “no place” in South Africa
With the launch last week of the iPad Air 2, Apple quietly announced a new Sim product that looks set to have a profound impact on mobile telecommunications operators worldwide. Apple’s reprogrammable Sim allows users to switch between data plans without the need to get a new Sim for each carrier
Around 200 people marched in Cape Town on Saturday to demand lower mobile call rates and media transformation. The group blew whistles as they marched down Long Street and carried signs stating “Free Set Top Box” and
China’s ZTE intends expanding its market share in smartphones in South Africa through an aggressive marketing campaign aimed at growing consumer awareness of its brand, its newly appointed chairman, Han Xun Jian, says. The company