MTN South Africa said on Wednesday that it has re-opened all of its 410 stores nationwide, but trading hours will remain limited for now.
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MTN South Africa has finally reached a consent agreement with the Competition Commission over data prices, more than six weeks after rival Vodacom did the same.
MTN Group has asked a US court to dismiss a case filed against it, in which it’s alleged the company paid protection money to the Taliban in Afghanistan, endangering the lives of US servicemen.
MTN Group shares rose more than 4% in Johannesburg on Wednesday after its biggest unit, MTN Nigeria Communications, posted a solid financial report for the first quarter of the year.
Ethiopia moved closer to liberalising one of the world’s final frontiers for telecommunications by publishing the final draft of directives. South Africa’s MTN Group and Vodacom Group are keen to invest.
One of the more surprising aspects of communications regulator Icasa’s emergency allocation of temporary spectrum to operators this week is that they’ve been given access to the digital dividend bands.
Communications regulator Icasa has assigned emergency temporary spectrum to telecommunications operators to deal with network demand during the Covid-19 crisis.
MTN South Africa said on Friday that it will be ready to use much of the additional spectrum allocated to it by communications regulator Icasa within the next four to six weeks.
Cell C is conspicuous by its absence from Icasa’s announcement on Friday of the companies that have been given access to temporary spectrum during the Covid-19 crisis. That is by design, it said.
MTN Group has announced a R250-million “relief package” in response to the Covid-19 pandemic across the 21 markets in which it operates.