MTN ranked as highest African brand
South African mobile operator MTN has topped the list as the highest ranked African brand in the prestigious Millward-Brown Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2013 survey, released today. MTN Group President More...
MTN pushes to secure Myanmar licence
MTN stepped up its awareness campaign in South East Asia today by detailing its unparalleled track record in emerging markets to the Myanmar media. MTN Group President and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa (Image source: File) The More...
Five great African tech innovations
Africa is filled with innovative solutions, from making life just a little bit easier in rural areas, to actually saving lives in the most dire of situations through science. While Africa is slowly catching up to More...
Top 10 most popular stories of the week
It is been a busy week for Africa's ICT sector. (Image source: Shutterstock.com) This week has been dominated by the release of product and commentary from spokespeople about the state of the market in Africa, More...
MTN Uganda announces LTE network launch
MTN has announced its launch of Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Uganda and claimed to be the first mobile operator in the country to do so. LTE is the latest technology in the world with the fastest Internet More...
MTN loses 470 000 subscribers in South Africa
South African-based mobile phone provider MTN released its quarterly update for the period ending 31 March, and while they have had a strong financial quarter, they have lost a number of subscribers in South More...
Nigeria gets mobile number portability
Nigerian mobile phone users will for the first time be able to port their mobile phone numbers to a different network without losing their current number. Nigeria’s mobile phone market has been at the receiving More...
South Africa: MTN responds to concerns around BlackBerry
South African mobile service provider MTN has responded to concerns over its BlackBerry service offerings. The company revealed that they detected a technical error which caused tiered BlackBerry Internet More...
New CCO at Nigeria’s IHS
Nigerian-based telecommunications infrastructure provider IHS has appointed Rhys Phillip as Chief Commercial Officer to support continued expansion across Africa and the Middle East. Rhys (43) joins Nigeria-headquartered More...
MTN could be operating in Myanmar soon
The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar (also known as Burma) might soon be benefitting from the largest mobile services operators in Africa – MTN. It has been revealed that MTN has made it onto the short list of More...