Telkom, which will become SA’s fourth mobile network operator when it launches commercial wireless services later this year, will sign…
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First came the news that Cell C is planning to sell its national network of base stations to a third-party tower operator. Now MTN SA, looking to cut costs, may begin selling space on its towers to competitors. Why, suddenly, is infrastructure sharing all the rage?
MTN’s recent reduction in peak-time prepaid call rates was a direct consequence of political pressure. And further price cuts are…
MTN SA is at an advanced stage of planning that will result in it opening its network of base stations…
“It’s difficult to let go.” Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN’s group president and CEO, sounds almost rueful when I ask him why…
In an article in the 1 December 2005 edition of Fortune magazine, Paul LaMonica wrote that the new AT&T (just merged with SBC) was “not worth buying”. He anticipated declining margins due to fierce competition. He worried that the company was a “middle weight” in the mobile phone industry. And he fretted that it
JSE-listed cellphone group MTN plans to spend almost US$200m (R1,5bn) in total on high-capacity undersea cables serving markets in Africa…
Listed cellphone operator MTN is “struggling” with its operations in SA, consultancy Frost & Sullivan said on Thursday. Earlier, MTN…
MTN SA continued to lose market share in the second half of 2009, shedding 6,4% of its subscriber base during…
SA consumers, used to high prices for telecommunications, must be rubbing their hands in glee. The cost of broadband and voice telephony has begun falling, in some cases dramatically, as competition finally begins to take effect