Browsing: MTN

There is little risk of MTN creating two centres of power, one around CEO-designate Sifiso Dabengwa and the other around the still-to-be-appointed CEO of MTN International. That’s the view of Kristoff Puelinckx

Despite the tough economy, at least one area of business is booming. Data centres, some of them vast structures costing hundreds of millions of rand each, are popping up across the countryside. We have the free market to thank

MTN has appointed former World Cup Organising Committee chief communications officer Rich Mkhondo as the new head of its corporate affairs department. He replaces Nozipho January-Bardill

Sifiso Dabengwa will replace Phuthuma Nhleko as MTN group CEO and president on 1 April, the mobile operator announced on Monday morning. Mr Dabengwa, aged 53, has a BSc in electrical engineering and an MBA

Telkom dominates the latest instalment of TechCentral’s TalkCentral podcast. We look at what’s really going on at the fixed-line operator, what the dossiers mean, and what the group’s prospects are for 2011 and beyond

Telecommunications operators say the Universal Service Fund should be used exclusively for telecommunications services in underserviced areas and should not be tapped by broadcasters for digital set-top box

Neotel and Vodacom have called on their regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), to scrap the universal service obligations they agreed to when they were licensed. Instead, they want

MTN SA will begin offering firmware and operating system updates for HTC smartphones over the air. “Though we are initially targeting the HTC Desire, other phones will soon follow suit

Less than a month after winning a deal to buy the passive components of Cell C’s national tower infrastructure, US company American Tower Corp (ATC) has won signed another big African

Altech’s largest subsidiary, Autopage Cellular, is keen to expand beyond its core business as a cellphone service provider. This comes as pressure