Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) has announced that it will not share its infrastructure with other players in the industry, despite a report from Namibia’s regulator, the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran), highlighting infrastructure sharing as a factor contributing to high data costs for consumers in the country. According to Cran, Namibia’s data costs rank...
Namibia’s market-leading cellco Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) has announced the activation of its 1,000th network tower. The site in Okadhiya in the Oshana Region has been deployed as part of the operator’s NAD1.2 billion (USD69.8 million) 081Every1 project, launched in August 2017, which aims to extend network coverage to almost 100% of the population through the...
Namibia’s market-leading cellco Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) has commissioned five new sites in the Ohangwena region to improve network coverage, New Era reports. The new 3G sites, which were activated in early September, are at Omhedi, Omahayi, Okatope ka Melila, Ondobe Yomunghudi and Oshiti sha Haihonya. MTC executive Tim Ekandjo noted the deployment forms part of the...
Namibia’s market-leading cellco Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) has reached a settlement agreement with the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN), ending a ten-year dispute over the legality of regulatory levies for the period 31 March 2016 to 11 June 2018. MTC’s recently released interim financial statement noted that, following a High Court ruling on the licence...
Namibia’s market-leading cellco Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) wants the country’s existing moratorium on 5G network deployment to be lifted and is eyeing a digital transition towards fifth-generation technology with partners including Chinese equipment maker Huawei, reports The Namibian. With the operator having recently signed a cooperation agreement with Huawei and Namibia University of Science and Technology...
Premier digital enabler, MTC, on Friday at an initial public offering (IPO) Ring a Bell ceremony, officially started its new life, as a fully listed Namibian wholly-owned public listed company on the Namibia Stock Exchange (NSX). The listing, which is the largest by a local company and the first by a state-owned company saw MTC...
Delayed for more than a year because of the global pandemic, the IPO of the incumbent telecommunications operator is finally on track. The Namibian government places high hopes in this operation to inject dynamism into national growth. Shares of Namibia’s state-owned telecoms operator, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC), officially went on sale Monday, September 20, on the...
Namibia’s largest telecommunications operator Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) says it will list on the local Stock Exchange (NSX) by the end of November. The company said it will make available 367.5 million shares to the general public and would release its prospectus on 20 September 2021 detailing the cost of the shares. According to MTC...
Mobile Telecommunications (MTC), Namibia’s largest mobile network operator (MNO) by subscribers, has split its shares in a 1:30 ratio ahead of its upcoming listing on the Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX), reports The Namibian. The decision to increase the company’s share capital from an initial 25 million shares to 750 million was revealed by the company’s CFO Thinus...
Mobile Telecommunications (MTC), Namibia’s largest mobile network operator (MNO) by subscribers, has announced that its application for a primary listing on the main board of the Namibian Stock Exchange (NSX) has been approved. In a statement issued on 20 August, MTC confirmed 49% of the ordinary shares in the company will be made available to the general...
