Mteto Nyati’s ambitious plan to reinvent MTN
Radically improving MTN’s customer service, aggressively growing the company’s top line - in part by taking market share from bigger rival Vodacom - expanding into business services, and building
View ArticleMTN will no longer ‘subsidise’ Afrihost
Afrihost is in talks with alternative providers of wholesale data because MTN is not prepared to continue providing data to the Internet service provider, which it bought in 2014, at below cost. “Let me
View ArticleMTN mulls opening mobile network to rivals
MTN is prepared to open its mobile network on a wholesale basis to competitors, but can only consider doing so once government has issued it with additional radio frequency spectrum. MTN South
View ArticleAmazon sets up shop in Johannesburg
Web retailer and technology giant Amazon has announced plans to open an office of Amazon Web Services in Johannesburg. The new office joins the established Amazon Development Centre in Cape Town, which...
View ArticleCell C enjoying ‘massive’ growth
Blue Label Telecoms said on Monday that Cell C has enjoyed “massive” growth in the past year, while MTN has “lost a little bit of direction”. This is according to Brett Levy, co-CEO at Blue Label, which
View ArticleMTN may sell SA towers: report
MTN has entered into discussions with fast-growing pan-African mobile phone tower operator IHS Holding with a view to selling its South African tower portfolio, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Quoting...
View ArticleSo, why did MTN buy Afrihost?
It’s fair to say that MTN’s purchase of Internet service provider Afrihost in late 2014 caught most of the industry by surprise. Not because MTN paid more than R400m for half of the business (which no...
View ArticleMTN to acquire Smart Village
The race to wire up South Africa’s suburbs to fibre broadband has led MTN to buy Smart Village from MultiChoice. “MTN has concluded a deal with MultiChoice to acquire Smart Village
View ArticleAfrihost moving DSL clients to new network
MTN-controlled Internet service provider Afrihost has begun moving its digital subscriber line Internet clients onto a new network it believes will offering superior performance. The new network...
View ArticleCEO promises a more ‘caring’ MTN
The roll-out of long-term data packages is part of MTN South Africa's strategy to raise its profile as a “customer centric” company, said CEO Mteto Nyati. Nyati replaced Ahmad Farroukh earlier this...
View ArticleMTN takes aim at ‘free loading’ WhatsApp
Mobile operator MTN has fired a shot at popular chat application WhatsApp. The operator fumed at the popularity of chat over-the-top operators. “You have these players which are getting
View ArticleMTN talks up network sharing
South Africa is set for increasing sharing between mobile networks as profitability pressures force compromise, according to the MTN South Africa CEO. Reduced profitability is pushing network
View ArticleMTN Zakhele plummets on JSE debut
MTN Zakhele shareholders felt the impact of the MTN Nigeria fine scandal on Thursday, with the share taking a 26% hit before it had even begun trading on the JSE. After the kudu horn was blown by board...
View ArticleWe won’t block WhatsApp: Vodacom
Over-the-top services such as Internet messaging application WhatsApp, are eating Vodacom’s "lunch" but the company has no plan to block the service. This is according to group CEO Shameel Joosub.
View ArticleVodacom, MTN to attend OTT hearings
South Africa's two biggest mobile networks are gearing up to attend parliamentary hearings on possible regulation of over-the-top services. Vodacom and MTN will attend hearings on 26 January at which
View ArticleMTN taps Discovery for new CIO
MTN South Africa has appointed Benjamin Marais as its new chief information officer, effective 1 March 2016. Marais, who joins MTN from Discovery Health, where he served in a similar role, replaces...
View ArticleTurnaround at MTN SA takes hold
MTN’s South African subsidiary increased its profit margin, calculated using earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, by 1,3 percentage points to 33,4%, suggesting a solid...
View ArticleMTN SA in big VOD strategy rethink
MTN’s video-on-demand strategy in the South African market has not worked as expected and will now be radically overhauled. That’s the word from MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati, who was speaking
View ArticleMTN’s R592m handset headache
MTN South Africa has taken an impairment charge of R592m related to over-spending on handsets in 2015. Parent MTN Group revealed in its annual results, published on Thursday, that
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