MTN secretly locks down 4G broadband customers in South Africa
MTN quietly implemented a new rule on 1 January 2026 that locks the SIM cards of fixed wireless customers with older LTE/4G routers to the device.
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Cell C | Cellular | End-User Subscriber Service Charter (EUSSC) | Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) | MTN | Trending
New mobile data expiry rules in South Africa
Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C say they are scrutinising new regulations from ICASA that govern voice, SMS, and data bundles.
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MTN Irancell CEO secretly replaced
Authorities ousted state mobile operator MTN Irancell’s chief executive officer without informing MTN Group.
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Cellular | Cyril Ramaphosa | Donald Trump | Iraj Abedian | Irancell | MTN
MTN between a rock and a hard place
Regardless of whether anti-government protests in Iran lead to regime change or not, MTN risks reputational and financial damage because of its subsidiary in the country.
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The fastest South African neighbourhoods for mobile data
MyBroadband Insights research revealed that Century City was the neighbourhood with the fastest mobile data at the end of 2025.
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Great support from South Africa’s mobile operators
MyBroadband found that it was possible to get through to a human customer support agent on all the mobile networks in around 2 minutes.
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Cell C | Cellular | network-initiated USSD | Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) | wireless application service provider (WASP)
Cell C explains pop-up ad spam on brand-new SIMs
MyBroadband recently found that Cell C allows WASPs to send USSD-based pop-up advertisements to customers on its network.
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Black Rock Mining | Cellular | Chris Schoeman | Errol Elsdon | Kenneth Nkosana Makate | Please Call Me
Please Call Me’s Nkosana Makate faces final showdown
Nkosana Makate will face his former backer, Errol Elsdon, in an arbitration hearing to oppose a claim against 40% of his settlement from Vodacom for his Please Call Me idea.
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Vodacom price increases announced
Vodacom is notifying contract customers to prepare for price increases on 1 February 2026, stating that these are necessary to continue investing in its network.