The latest annual financial results from Blue Label Telecoms show that Cell C is gaining ground on its rivals and is specifically stealing market share from rival MTN. In a presentation accompanying publication of its results for the financial year ended 31 May 2013, the company, which is by far the country’s largest
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MTN South Africa has applied for access to a sliver of spectrum between 2 010MHz and 2 015MHz to provide mobile broadband services, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) said on Monday. Since MTN filed its application
MTN’s chief corporate services officer has been suspended allegedly over his role in the diversion of sponsorship funds for the ICT indaba, Business Day reported on Monday. The newspaper reported that Robert Madzonga was also threatening to take take legal action against former
The price war in South Africa’s mobile industry is starting to take its toll, evidenced this week by the declining subscriber numbers at MTN, which conceded that it had been too slow in cutting its rates to match its rivals. But behind the scenes a much more interesting battle is brewing
As always, your TalkCentral hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson dive into the big technology stories of recent days. In the show this week, we talk about MTN’s financial results and their admission that they were too slow in reacting to the price war in South Africa; the R400m project to
New communications minister Yunus Carrim has boldly vowed to go where every minister before him has tried and failed: increase Internet penetration and cut the cost of communicating in South Africa. The number of Internet users in the country has
The share price of Africa’s largest telecommunications group breached R200 for the first time on Wednesday after it published its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2013. The share touched R200,90/share in intraday trade, but fell back to R199 at the close, a gain
Asymmetry in wholesale mobile call termination rates distorts the market, undermines competition and harms consumers. That’s the view of MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who has strongly rejected arguments put forward by Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says
MTN South Africa lost subscribers in the first half of the year and has admitted that it was “slow to respond to aggressive price competition” in both voice and data and that this was partially responsible for the company’s underperformance. In the six months
MTN’s fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) mobile broadband offering has come out on top in a series of tests run by TechCentral in Johannesburg on Monday. It’s the second time that MTN has emerged with the fastest 4G network in TechCentral’s testing