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MTN SA Rolls Out Green Energy Programme
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How the Rebooked App Offers SA Students Relief from High Textbook Prices
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MTN SA Announces 2 New Executive Appointments
MTN SA today announced a review of its executive structure as the company gears up to deliver on its Ambition 2025 strategy to transform from a Telco to a TechCo. In line with this strategic shift, the company has appointed Ernst Fonternel into the role of Chief Consumer Officer and Divyesh Joshi into the role of Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. Both appointments were recruited internally and are effective 1 October. The new executive structure also sees the introduction of two new roles including that of Chief Commercial Operations Officer and Chief Risk Officer. Active recruiting for these positions is currently underway. “The current top-tier structure has been optimal to enable us to evolve and grow the business to where we are today. However, in pursuit of Ambit...
MTN Group Announces Appointment of New Major Business Executive
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MTN SA’s Airfibre Offering Surges Across 3.1 Million Homes in Just 1 Year
MTN South Africa says that its airfibre offering, MTN Supersonic, has seen enormous growth since launching in March 2021, with the product now being used in over 3.4-million homes. Airfibre, like Supersonic’s, leverages Gigabit 1 (G1) Radio to transmit internet data, unlike with traditional fibre cables. MTN says Airfibre uses open spectrum frequencies, which lowers the cost to customers. Users simply need the installation of an A4-sized antenna at their home and this antenna will then communicate with the radio equipment attached to an MTN mobile tower. MTN says that after passing 10,759 homes in the first month after launching in March, the rate of growth increased rapidly to reach 3.1 million homes in one year. This has continued to reach over 3.4 million in May this year. “We are conti...
MTN Users Can Get 3GBs of Free Data by Using This Web Browser
Image sourced from Iberdrola.com. Opera, the company that maintains the Opera and Opera Mini web browsers has partnered with MTN South Africa to provide South African users with 3GB each of free data per month while they are using Opera internet browsers. The offer is effective immediately with no sign-up required by users, only that they browse the internet using Opera browsers and be using MTN as their operator. The company says that in July 2022 alone, Opera and MTN delivered a total of 17.7 petabytes (1 petabyte is 1,024 terabytes) of free data to 5.9 million users in South Africa. Opera says that this initiative is in part to provide more free data and internet access to more people, working toward closing the digital divide. “We intrinsically agree with this view and believe that hig...
MTN South Africa Apologises for Wide Ranging Data Outages
MTN South Africa has experienced outages in its mobile data networks in two of the country’s provinces, leaving customers without access to the carrier’s data. Customers in parts of the Free State province and Western Cape Province in South Africa experienced these outages in the early hours of Thursday morning. According to an MTN spokesperson, the network downtime was due to “urgently planned repair work” but restorations are in progress. The carrier says that restoration should be completed around 09:20, however, users on DownDetector are still reporting a heightened level of network outages as of 10:00 on Thursday morning. The outage spike was around 8:00. Image sourced from DownDetector.co.za. “Our apologies to our customers in those areas who were affected. The work was urgently requ...
MTN South Africa is Number 1 – Again
MTN South Africa has once again been ranked as the country’s best network, this time in the second quarter of 2022. According to the tech publication MyBroadband Insights report, MTN reigned supreme with a Network Quality Score of 9.75 in comparison to the 6.38 achieved by its nearest competitor. In 2021, the largest telecom in Africa won a similar prize, ranked as the best mobile network in South Africa by MyBroadband. Michele Gamberini, CTIO at MTN SA says “The quality of experience delivered to our customers is very important to MTN. We have embarked on a major network modernisation and expansion drive to improve both coverage and reach.” “While accelerating and improving access through 5G is one critical leg, our aim throughout is to significantly enhance access broadly and open the do...
MTN Nigeria Bleeds $54-Million to Shady Bank Transfers
Sourced from TheTechieGuy (https://thetechieguy.com/) Nigeria’s largest telecom firm, MTN Nigeria and MTN’s leading subsidiary in terms of sheer number of subscribers, has taken 18 banks in Nigeria to court over an alleged series of unauthorised transfers to the tune of $53.7-million. The shady transfers were from an account reportedly owned by its mobile payment service bank (PSB) MoMo, which was only recently licensed in the West African country. According to several Nigerian publications covering the story, MTN Nigeria alleges that the 18 banks, which are partners of the telecom, have wrongly transferred billions of Naira to 8000 accounts maintained by customers of the banks. MTN through MoMo is currently seeking a court declaration that states that the fund deposits belong to MoMo and ...
South Africa Could See Cheaper International Calls Thanks to ICASA
Sourced from PC Mag The Internet Service Providers’ Association of SA (ISPA) says that it welcomes moves by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) to conduct a new ‘cost modelling exercise’ with regards to voice call termination rates and to introduce curbs on charges from local voice providers for terminating calls from outside of South Africa. The result is likely to be cheaper overseas calls and much-reduced phone fraud, says the Association representing over 200 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) members, many of which provide voice services. What are Call Termination Rates and how do they work: Call termination rates are the fees telecoms networks across the world levy on each other to ensure calls originally placed on another network can reach – or terminate – on their...
What You Need to Know About MTN’s New Reduced LTE & 5G Deals
MTN has announced price reductions and more value to customers on its MyMTN Home Fixed LTE and 5G home portfolios. The MyMTN Home Fixed LTE and 5G offers are available until 31 July 2022. “At MTN we are committed to providing connectivity at affordable rates for all South Africans to enable more people to enjoy the benefits of a modern connected world with as little impact on their pockets as possible”, says Mapula Bodibe, Chief Consumer Officer at MTN South Africa. The MyMTN Home Uncapped Fixed LTE and 5G internet promotional deals are shown below: According to MTN, its Uncapped Fixed LTE 10Mbps Max Speed offering has been reduced from R499 PM for 24 months to R399 per month for a more extended signup period of 36 months – an R100 reduction but for a longer commitment. Its uncapped ...
