Reuters | Telecom firm MTN Uganda, a unit of South Africa’s MTN Group, on Friday launched the first 5G network in the east African country. MTN...
Bloomberg | MTN Group Ltd. is considering divesting some of its smaller operations in West Africa as its focuses on core markets, people familiar with the...
According to capital market data from the Nigerian Exchange dated May 20th, MTN Nigeria’s market capitalization stood at N5 trillion (about US$12 billion), making it one...
Telecompaper | MTN Group said that Godfrey Motsa will step down as CEO of MTN South Africa from January 01 2022 and will be succeeded by...
There has been an uptick in local acquisitions in Africa
By Jenerali Ulimwengu The recent tug of war between the Nigerian government and Africa’s biggest telecommunications company – MTN, comes as an instructive development for the...
The CEO of Africa’s biggest telecommunications company resigned on Monday because of a US$5.2 billion fine meted out to MTN Group’s Nigerian subsidiary. Sifiso Dabengwa was...
MTN Nigeria, which is a subsidiary of Africa’s biggest telecommunications company – the MTN Group – was fined a record US$5.2 billion by the communications regulator...
MTN Group Ltd., has revealed that Ahmad Farroukh, the chief executive officer of the wireless carrier’s South African unit, has resigned amid labor unrest and declining...
MTN, Africa’s largest wireless carrier, plans to cut a number of its 578-strong business-unit workforce as part of a reorganization designed to boost profitability from corporate...
African brands are growing beyond the continent by simultaneously catering to local needs and doing business on a global scale. Thebe Ikalafeng, CEO of Brand Africa...
Mobile technology is helping provide better, more sustainable water supplies in Africa, where a third of hand pumps don’t work at any given time, BBCnews reports. In a...
f South African mobile operator group MTN plans to spend more than $3 billion to improve its network infrastructure in Nigeria, the Business Day newspaper has reported....
JSE-listed mobile phone operator, Vodacom, late on Tuesday said the $236.5 million deal to acquire an additional 17.2 percent stake in Vodacom Tanzania had been approved....
Transferring cash between West African neighbors Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso could become easier thanks to mobile giants MTN and Bharti Airtel inking a mobile money...
South Africa’s telecoms regulator can go ahead with planned cuts to mobile interconnection rates, a court ruled on Monday. The decision threw out a petition by...
Thousands of people moving through the South-Sudan-Uganda border post now have access to a MTN customer service center in the area. On Friday, mobile operator MTN...
A new slate of leaders in the public and private sectors are seeking to prove their independence, improve credibility and attract investment. Rwanda’s great and good...
MTN Ghana Foundation has signed a partnership agreement with Ghana Multimedia Incubation Center (GMIC) to sponsor a business incubation project targeted at final year tertiary students....
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil East Africa’s first land based locally-owned drilling contractor is just starting up, signalling the intention of local investors to get...
(Reuters) – Nigeria lifted a mobile phone blackout in the Islamist militant disturbed area of Maiduguri on Friday, saying there were signs of improving security after...
South African mobile telecommunications giant MTN has stepped up its awareness campaign in South East Asia today by detailing its unparalleled track record in emerging markets...
(Reuters) – Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator has ordered South African mobile Giant MTN to charge customers the same rate whether calling rival operators or other MTN users,...
MTN Uganda has launched a multi-million dollar Switching and Data Center in Mutundwe, just outside Kampala, and in addition, a new MTN Business Unit that will...
(Reuters) – African mobile operator MTN asked a U.S. court on Tuesday to dismiss a US$4.2 billion suit brought by rival Turkcell after alleged underhand tactics...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s elite Hawks police unit has opened an investigation into allegations of corruption at mobile phone giant MTN relating to its purchase of...
(Reuters)- African mobile operator MTN said on Tuesday it is working with U.S. authorities to manage compliance with sanctions against Iran, one of its biggest markets....
First African brand enters ranking. MTN has been ranked Africa’s most valuable brand in the authoritative BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 survey, released...
MTN Group head quarters in Johannesburg. PHOTO/File (Reuters) – South African mobile phone operator MTN Group on Monday accused rival Turkcell of using the threat of...
The rapid growth of Africa’s mobile telecommunications market over the past decade has had a huge impact on African consumers, on operators that do business on...
(Reuters) – MTN Group, Africa’s largest telecom, plans to spend more than US$1 billion this year on its Nigerian network, an official said on Thursday, as...
Nigerian regulators have threatened to fine and stop three telecommunications companies from signing up new cellular phone subscribers over complaints about poor service in a nation...
South Africa’s MTN Group said it will roll out Opera Software’s mobile browser in Africa and the Middle East, to offer faster web access in countries...
Concerned Nigerians and families of contractors who claimed to have done jobs for MTN Communications Nigeria Limited, gathered at Folomo roundabout, Awolowo Way, Ikoyi, Lagos, by...
