Govt needs to drive broadband penetration: MTN
Government should subsidise the roll-out of broadband in SA, not digital TV decoders, argues MTN SA managing director, Karel Pienaar.
View ArticleMTN Zone numbers impress
MTN Group says its per second billing price plan offering, MTN Zone, has close to 14 million users in South Africa, and still growing.
View ArticleMTN execs get big payload
MTN executives have been awarded millions of rands in shares in terms of the MTN's performance share plan.
View ArticleMTN defends neutral approach to price war
Karel Pienaar CEO: MTN South Africa has defended the group’s neutral stance in the ongoing price war in the mobile space in South Africa.
View ArticleMTN revisits mobile money space
Mobile operator MTN is set to launch another assault on the mobile money market with “renewed focus”.
View ArticleWhat MTN’s top dogs earn
MTN Group president and CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa took home as much as R23.54 million for the year ended December 2012, including a bonus exceeding R13.45 million.
View ArticleMTN SA gets new CEO
MTN has announced that it has appointed a new CEO for the group's South African operations.
View ArticleMTN invests in $75 million tech fund
MTN Group has been unveiled as the "cornerstone investor" in a $75 million fund aimed at late stage companies developing online and mobile applications and services.
View ArticleSouth African mobile prices are cheap: report
A mobile pricing report, based on research by two independent firms, debunks the long-held belief that low-end mobile subscribers in South Africa are getting a raw deal.
View ArticleR48 million for MTN boss
MTN Group CEO Safiso Dabengwa walked away with a total salary of over R48 million in 2013 - more than doubling his R23.5 million paycheque in 2012.
View ArticleCellular CEOs reveal their 2012 trend predictions
MTN SA CEO, Karel Pienaar, and Cell C head, Alan Knott-Craig, discuss their predictions on the biggest trends in 2012 in the SA mobile space
View ArticleMTN ahead of data ‘hump’
MTN (MTN) SA MD Karel Pienaar says that the group is ahead of the curve in terms its networks ability to accommodate a huge rise in data capacity.
View ArticleLTE networks in SA in only 3 years?
Business research and consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan, believes that companies - including Vodacom and MTN - are likely to only deploy LTE networks in as much as three years.
View ArticleSA’s mobile CEOs reveal their smartphone choices
South Africa's cellular bigwigs reveal their mobile phones of choice (with unsurprising results)
View ArticleBroadband delays hurting job creation
Delays in the rollout of broadband will hamper the creation of thousands of jobs in the ICT space and will have a significant negative impact on GDP, according to MTN CEO, Karel Pienaar.
View ArticleExecutive smartphone and tablet choices
BusinessTech asked executives in the tech space which smartphones they are currently using - and threw in a question about their tablets of choice, for good measure.
View ArticleSA telecoms CEOs on Twitter
Studies show that most CEOs globally keep a low social media profile, and South African telecom executives are no different.
View ArticleLTE in SA looms
MTN and 8ta are preparing to launch commercial LTE services at the end of 2012 and sometime in 2013 respectively.
View ArticleMTN SA needs pricing strategy re-think
Frost & Sullivan says that MTN SA is likely to experience a sharp decline in revenues amid a tense price war with rival operators.
View ArticleSA needs R200bn ICT infrastructure investment: MTN
It will take an investment of R200 billion in infrastructure investment to make government’s broadband plans a reality
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