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October 23, 2025

Africa reeling in content opportunities

LIVE FROM MWC KIGALI 2025: Experts explained Africa is no longer content to just consume content, with efforts underway to promote local creation, monetisation, access and distribution within the continent and beyond.

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October 21, 2025

By Amiya Johar

MTN boss urges Africa to move on from voice era regulation

LIVE FROM MWC KIGALI 2025: MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita (pictured, right) called on African governments to overhaul outdated telecom frameworks, warning that regulations designed for the “voice era” risk slowing the continent’s shift toward a digital economy.

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September 30, 2025

By Michael Carroll

Ericsson advances MTN SA 5G goal with cloud core update

MTN South Africa gained greater session, mobility management and policy control capabilities in a core network upgrade vendor Ericsson stated lays a path towards a future deployment of standalone 5G.

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September 17, 2025

By Amiya Johar

MTN eyes AI data centre expansion across Africa

MTN Group reportedly entered talks with potential partners in the US and Europe to support the rollout of AI data centres across Africa, as the operator vies to plug an infrastructure gap across the continent.

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August 18, 2025

By Chris Donkin

MTN shifts SA boss back to CTIO in exec shake-up

MTN South Africa CEO Charles Molapisi is set to return to his previous job as the operator group’s CTIO, in one of a number of changes at the helm of the company expected to drive an updated strategy.

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June 11, 2025

By Kavit Majithia

Operator giants call for seamless shift to 6G

An alliance of leading mobile operators including Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, MTN and Telefonica called on standards body 3GPP to put the necessary frameworks in place to ensure 6G technology is an operational and societal success, while avoiding mistakes from the 5G era.

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May 6, 2025

By Chris Donkin

MTN to offer 1.2M cheap 4G devices

MTN South Africa outlined a plan to sell smartphones for ZAR99 to selected prepaid customers, a move positioned as an attempt to ensure nobody is left behind in the transition to 4G and 5G technology.

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Africa reeling in content opportunities

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MTN to offer 1.2M cheap 4G devices

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