Mitwa Ng’ambi, who took over office from Stephen Blewett on 1 September as the new CEO of MTN Cameroon, has met with several telecommunication industry stakeholders as part of a campaign to gage the level of industry support, activity and cooperation. Ng’ambi met with the CEO of IHS Towers Cameroon Abdallah Al Chammas during which...
Vodacom and MTN have said the severe load shedding that Eskom has subjected South Africa to since last week is having a big impact on their networks, with flat batteries impacting service availability. MTN South Africa chief technology & information officer Michele Gamberini said the severity of the power cuts means batteries deployed at base stations...
MTN Nigeria Communications Plc yesterday launched its commercial 5G network in Lagos, with a promise to launch the network in six other cities. The cities are Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Kano, Owerri, and Maiduguri. The Lagos 5G commercial launch came on the heels of its 5G pilot launch three weeks ago, as mandated by the...
Infrastructure vandalism is one of the main challenges facing telecom operators in Africa. In 2019, Ghanaian telecom operators recorded over 2,000 fiber cuts across the country, according to the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber. Ghanaian telecommunications operator MTN Ghana said it had recorded 125 cases of its fiber optic infrastructure being cut in the past eight months. These incidents...
MTN Nigeria yesterday rolled out the fifth generation (5G) mobile network across 190 sites making it the first of telecommunication service provider to do so in Nigeria. MTN won the auction for the 3.5GHz 5G spectrum alongside Mafab Communications in December 2021 and switched on the 5G network in 190 sites across the country. Nigeria’s...
MTN Group has today announced that Marvin Ncube has been appointed Executive: Business Finance, effective 1 September 2022. Ncube, according to MTN, is a seasoned finance executive with more than 19 years’ experience in strategic business planning, business performance, capex management, statutory reporting and revenue assurance. In his new role, Ncube will lead three core...
MTN Ghana has introduced an Electronic Voucher Distribution (EVD) Denomination Change to enable pre-paid customers who purchase airtime from retailers to receive the same value purchased. The EVD Denomination change initiative will prevent retailers from overcharging customers for purchasing electronic credit transfer. MTN customers can visit any EVD vendor (credit transfer agent) to purchase airtime...
In separate but identical regulatory filings on Monday, MTN Group and Telkom said they remained locked in discussions about a potential combination of their businesses. The routine filings, required periodically under JSE rules when companies are under “cautionary”, follow the stunning announcement in mid-July that they were in talks about a deal. Despite potentially insurmountable regulatory and political...
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 Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita, has declared that the 5G license won by MTN Nigeria will usher in a new world of opportunities. Speaking in an interview on Arise TV’s Global Business Report, the group CEO gave an indication of what the telco will achieve with the spectrum licence. “We have...
