Browsing: MTN

Broadcasting to face competition probe

By

South Africa’s highly concentrated television broadcasting industry, which has one dominant subscription operator in MultiChoice, will be a key focus area of Icasa’s high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector

Shift focus to mobile data costs: Ispa

By

The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) wants communications regulator Icasa to focus on more than just voice call termination rates, and believes there needs to be a greater emphasis on dealing with the cost of mobile data services in South Africa. “Voice remains a significant issue for the average consumer. At the

Icasa to launch competition inquiry

By

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has announced plans to launch what it’s calling a “high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector”. The authority, which regulates the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors

SA operators jostle for spectrum

By

While all the focus in the telecommunications industry is on the fight over call termination rates, an even more important battle is looming large, this time over access to radio frequency spectrum. Billions of rand are at stake as South Africa’s big telecommunications operators

Telkom, MTN sign network deal

By

Just a day after cautioning shareholders that it was in talks with MTN South Africa, Telkom has signed a heads of agreement with the company in terms of which MTN will take over financial and operational responsibility for the roll-out and operation of its radio access network. In addition, each company will be able to

Cell C’s anti-MTN ad must go

By

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Cell C must withdraw a radio advertisement that takes aim at rival MTN and its decision to take communications regulator Icasa to court over its final regulations on call termination rates. Cell C began flighting the ad on 20 February, soon after

MTN to take axe to channel costs

By

“No options are off the table” as MTN South Africa looks to take an axe to high channel distribution costs. That’s according to the operator’s CEO, Zunaid Bulbulia, who says acquiring independent cellular service providers and cutting margins offered to the

Telkom firms up MTN deal talks

By

Telkom has confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in South Africa’s telecommunications industry: that it is in talks with mobile operator MTN about a deal involving its loss-making mobile division. It confirmed to shareholders by way of a statement on the JSE’s Sens

MTN has ‘options’ if Vodacom buys Neotel

By

MTN has a “number of options on the table” if the sale of spectrum is included in Vodacom’s looming deal to buy Neotel. “If the transferability of spectrum is something that becomes kosher in a market context, we’d be in a position to capitalise on that change,” MTN