The second and final stage of the introduction of fixed-line number portability, which will allow individual Telkom customers to switch networks without losing their numbers, has been delayed by about five weeks.
The first phase of fixed-line number portability, also known as geographic number portability (GNP), kicked off in May last year; the second, more important [...]
Telkom, which will become SA’s fourth mobile network operator when it launches commercial wireless services later this year, will sign a national roaming agreement with MTN, multiple independent sources have said.
The apparent deal means Telkom mobile customers will roam on MTN’s network outside the big urban centres where Telkom hasn’t yet built infrastructure.
MTN has beaten [...]
First came the news that Cell C is planning to sell its national network of base stations to a third-party tower operator. Now MTN SA, looking to cut costs, may begin selling space on its towers to competitors. Why, suddenly, is infrastructure sharing all the rage?
MTN’s recent reduction in peak-time prepaid call rates was a direct consequence of political pressure. And further price cuts are coming this year.
That’s the word from Karel Pienaar (pictured), MD of the mobile group’s SA operation, who says MTN is a “corporate citizen first and foremost and we have to listen to our government”.
MTN slashed [...]
MTN SA is at an advanced stage of planning that will result in it opening its network of base stations to rival operators in an effort aimed, in part, at reducing the company’s operating costs.
“In three or four years from now, I want two or three other operators on my infrastructure,” says MTN SA MD [...]
“It’s difficult to let go.” Phuthuma Nhleko, MTN’s group president and CEO, sounds almost rueful when I ask him why he’s decided to hang up his hat at the mobile operator.
“You do a lot of soul searching,” he tells me in an interview at the Melrose Arch Hotel in Johannesburg, a day after presenting the [...]
In an article in the 1 December 2005 edition of Fortune magazine, Paul LaMonica wrote that the new AT&T (just merged with SBC) was “not worth buying”. He anticipated declining margins due to fierce competition. He worried that the company was a “middle weight” in the mobile phone industry. And he fretted that it
JSE-listed cellphone group MTN plans to spend almost US$200m (R1,5bn) in total on high-capacity undersea cables serving markets in Africa and the Middle East.
That’s the word from outgoing MTN president and CEO Phuthuma Nhleko, who says the group has already spent tens of millions of dollars of the committed amount, with more to come in [...]
Listed cellphone operator MTN is “struggling” with its operations in SA, consultancy Frost & Sullivan said on Thursday.
Earlier, MTN reported a fall in group profit due as it released its results for the year ended 31 December 2009. It said adjusted headline earnings per share were down 16,6% to R7,54 in spite of a 28% [...]
MTN SA continued to lose market share in the second half of 2009, shedding 6,4% of its subscriber base during the year, as significant IT and billing system problems, coupled with new regulations and the recession, hit the cellular network operator hard.
Gross connections fell as a result of the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act [...]
