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June 24, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Telecoms subscribers in Nigeria registered over 13,880 abuses against the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in quarter one, although complaints about poor services dropped during the period. According to a report by the Nigerian Telecoms Consumer Complaints...
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June 11, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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The high court in Johannesburg ruled on Thursday afternoon, June 7, that the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) could not implement the new data regulations surrounding out-of-bundle (OOB) billing and rollover data. These regulations...
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May 29, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Cell C signs new roaming agreement with MTN
Cell C announced on Tuesday, 29 May 2018 that it has entered into a roaming agreement with MTN in order to complement Cell C’s own network. Implementation of the agreement will begin in June and the bulk of the services will be transferred within two...
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May 28, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on MTN reaffirms dividend despite Iran sanctions
MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter said on Thursday at the telecommunications operator’s annual general meeting of shareholders that it still expects to declare a full-year dividend for 2018 of R5/share despite impending severe US sanctions on Iran. Iran is a key...
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May 27, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, West Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on MTN Nigeria introduces 17-Digit Recharge PIN
The management of MTN Nigeria has announced the introduction of a new 17-digit recharge card Personal Identification Number (PIN), one additional digit from the previous 16. What this means is that when purchasing a scratch card of any denomination, the...
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May 25, 2018 •
Internet of Things, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on South Africa: MTN and Cisco Launch IoT Services
MTN and Cisco has on Wednesday, 23 May 2018 announced the availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Center automated IoT connectivity platform for companies looking to provide IoT services to their customers on MTN’s mobile network throughout South Africa....
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May 18, 2018 •
Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Southern Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on MTN and Huawei Launch the First NB-IoT Spectrum Sharing Solution
In a global first, MTN SA have successfully commercially deployed Huawei’s CloudAIR 2.0 solution to share spectrum between 2G, 3G, 4G and NB-IoT radio technologies in the 900MHz band. Following the launch of the first 5G trial in Africa, MTN SA and Huawei...
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May 8, 2018 •
Internet of Things, Mobile and Telecoms •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on MTN and Huawei unveil Africa’s first 5G field trial
MTN and Huawei have unveiled what they call Africa’s first 5G field trial with an end-to-end Huawei 5G solution. The field trial demonstrated a 5G fixed-wireless access use case with Huawei’s 5G 28GHz millimetre-wave technology in a “real-world”...
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May 7, 2018 •
People, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on Jonas and Tshabalala appointed to board of MTN Group
MTN Group today announced the appointment of Bajabulile Swazi Tshabalala, current Executive Director of consulting and investment holding company, Barbican Advisory Group and former Deputy Finance Minister of the Republic of South Africa, Mcebisi Hubert...
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May 3, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on MTN introduces new social bundles
MTN has introduced a range of social bundles starting from as little as R1 a day. The bundles give new and existing customers access to some of their favourite social media platforms. The social bundles are dedicated data bundles tailored for the popular...
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April 29, 2018 •
General, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on MTN Group commits to creating 1000 jobs in support of the YES initiative
MTN Group confirmed its support of the Youth Employment Service (YES) and has committed to the creation of 1000 jobs within the first year of the initiative. In March, President Cyril Ramaphosa launched YES, a business-led collaboration with government and...
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April 20, 2018 •
Online & Social, Top Stories, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on MTN introduces music streaming service in Nigeria
Music streaming service of telecommunications operator MTN, has entered into a partnership with Sony Music Entertainment to distribute on its platform in the Federal Republic the content of the label’s catalogue. The partnership which has been dubbed the...
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April 18, 2018 •
Internet of Things, Opinion, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on MTN Business takes aim at rapid IoT growth potential
The Internet of Things (IoT) used to be the domain of future forecasters. Now, the future is here and IoT is increasingly becoming more a part of day-to-day activities, driven by mobile connectivity. IoT is already all around us. It is used for solutions such...
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March 1, 2018 •
East Africa, Online & Social, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on MTN and Ericsson partnership with WPDI to enable mobile connectivity in Uganda
MTN and Ericsson in a partnership with the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI), have announced the successful graduation of 80 youth peacemakers at Hope North in Northern Uganda. Ericsson has been working with WPDI since 2014 to help youths...
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February 19, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on MTN still owes $609 million of Nigerian mega fine
On Thursday 15 February 2018, Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), revealed that MTN Nigeria still needed to pay USD $609,451 million (N220 billion) into the coffers of the federal government to settle...
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February 14, 2018 •
General, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Dean Workman •
Comments Off on MTN calls for the creation of ‘Gauteng Silicon Valley’
Government, universities and the private sector in Gauteng should harness the gains that have been made by both the public and private sector to build the mobile ecosystem and facilitate access to mobile broadband connectivity in the province, according to...
