... support lower latency, improved uplink performance, and advanced features such as network slicing. 5G-Advanced in South Africa The Rain Loop portable 5G router While Rain has been an early mover in 5G technology and introduced support for 5G-Advanced features with its range of the101 Pro routers in 2024, Vodacom and MTN have not been caught napping. MTN had been conducting ...

... government's measures to stabilise the currency and attract investment. Coupled with high inflation and interest rates, this has driven up costs and widened MTN Nigeria's pre-tax loss by more than 200% to 550.3 billion naira ($355.76 million). At group level, South Africa-headquartered MTN reported a loss before tax of 4.4 billion rand in the year to December 31, from a ...

... MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman Online gambling has emerged as a surprising drag on MTN South Africa's prepaid business, with the parent group citing the surge in betting activity as a key reason its local mobile arm is struggling to grow. In its 2025 integrated report, published on Wednesday, MTN said muted prepaid growth in South Africa "is exacerbated ...

... MTN South Africa's new chief executive officer (CEO), Ferdi Moolman, received total remuneration of R18.032 million in his first two months at the head of the African telecoms giant's local business. The amount was published in MTN's 2025 Integrated Annual Report, which was released on Wednesday, 29 April 2026. Moolman took the reins at MTN SA on 1 November 2025, ...

... The MTN SHIFT Gaming Experience returns for 2026, taking competitive gaming to shopping centres across the country. Running from April to August, the series builds toward a national final in Cape Town, with R350,000 in total prizes. 29 Apr 2026 29 Apr 2026 2026 MTN Shift Gaming Experience kicks off across South Africa. (Image supplied) Open to both experienced players ...

... MTN South Africa has handed over a new multimedia centre at Mzikayise Dalasile Senior Secondary School in partnership with the Eastern Cape Department of Education, as part of efforts to improve digital learning access in rural communities. The facility is equipped with digital workstations, internet connectivity, educator training support, and access to MTN Online School resources. It is designed to ...

... MTN and Cell C share co-leadership in South Africa's overall mobile ranking, with MTN posting the highest Download speed (Mb/s) at 41.3 Mbps and Cell C maintaining the best Latency (ms) for the fifth consecutive year. Download speeds progressed across all operators in the overall ranking this year, reflecting a broad-based improvement in network infrastructure across the South African mobile ...

... MTN South Africa CEO Charles Molapisi MTN Group plans to convert its African tower estate into a distributed AI compute fabric, installing open GPU infrastructure at base-station sites so that the same hardware can run both the cellular network and edge AI inference workloads. The plan was set out by MTN Group chief technology and information officer Charles Molapisi at ...

... Vodacom and MTN have signalled a positive shift in their South African operations. This comes as the two giants continue to feel the effects of consumers under pressure looking for value, a factor that has weighed on their prepaid businesses. Despite having more customers outside the country in fast-growing markets like Egypt for Vodacom and Nigeria for MTN, South Africa ...

... MTN will spend R480m to boost connectivity across the Free State and Northern Cape this year. The company invests billions of rand in capital expenditure locally each year, usually to build, update and maintain its network infrastructure across South Africa. MTN South Africa said R300m has been allocated to the Free State, with the Northern Cape getting more than R180m, ...

... been continuously refined to meet our customers' needs." According to MTN, XtraTime remains a meaningful value-added service within its prepaid business, contributing between 30% and 40% of recharges, noting healthy growth in airtime advance usage. It says the offering underscores how value-added services can support customer needs, retention and service revenue. The company explains that MTN XtraTime does not charge ...

... the country demands, to face the chaos, sit with it honestly, and return not with a funding proposal, but with a plan for South Africa. The conference, sponsored by the FirstRand Foundation, Absa, MTN, Wesgro, Telkom, the Vodacom Foundation, Wesgro and Volkswagen South Africa, featured six content-rich plenary sessions: Mobilising leadership, employees and partners around a common purpose, presented with ...

... a 15.54% stake in is very different to the telecoms provider of the past that tried to take on MTN and Vodacom. As an emergent player in this space two decades ago, Cell C was seen as a disruptor in the market with the potential to take market share from MTN, Vodacom, and especially Telkom. However, this business case did ...

... with Cell C's creditors taking a significant haircut. Realising that chasing after Vodacom and MTN in physical infrastructure would be a fruitless exercise, Cell C also decommissioned its own radio access network (RAN). MTN now manages its virtual RAN, and Cell C customers benefit from a spectrum pooling agreement with the operator, as well as a roaming agreement with Vodacom. ...

... The convenience that makes eSims attractive to travellers exposes a gap in South Africa's Rica regime The ability to provision an eSim remotely lets travellers load and activate a destination Sim before leaving home, and pricing has fallen sharply as a result. MTN's low-cost telecoms service Pi has a partnership with Nomad eSim that offers visitors to South Africa a ...

... MTN South Africa CEO Charles Molapisi MTN Group plans to convert its African tower estate into a distributed AI compute fabric, installing open GPU infrastructure at base-station sites so that the same hardware can run both the cellular network and edge AI inference workloads. The plan was set out by MTN Group chief technology and information officer Charles Molapisi at ...

... Vodacom and MTN have signalled a positive shift in their South African operations. This comes as the two giants continue to feel the effects of consumers under pressure looking for value, a factor that has weighed on their prepaid businesses. Despite having more customers outside the country in fast-growing markets like Egypt for Vodacom and Nigeria for MTN, South Africa ...

... near the MTN taxi rank as law enforcement officers raided the premises. Several workers, believed to be undocumented immigrants, were seen hiding on top of fridges while officers searched the store. Officials later removed them from their hiding places. Some of those detained were found working at MTN Butchery during compliance inspections conducted by authorities. Authorities have arrested seven people, ...

... MTN will spend R480m to boost connectivity across the Free State and Northern Cape this year. The company invests billions of rand in capital expenditure locally each year, usually to build, update and maintain its network infrastructure across South Africa. MTN South Africa said R300m has been allocated to the Free State, with the Northern Cape getting more than R180m, ...

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