Charles Molapisi MTN Group is targeting R30-billion in “value creation” from AI over the next three to five years, with roughly half expected to come from using AI to run the business more cheaply and the balance split between consumer and business applications. Setting out the plan at the group’s capital markets day on Wednesday,…
MTN Group said on Tuesday that its core earnings jumped 27.9% in the first quarter, outpacing revenue growth as tighter cost control and strong performances in Nigeria and Ghana boosted profit. Africa’s biggest telecommunications operator, which has more than 310 million customers in 16 markets across the continent, said its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation…
MTN group CEO and president Ralph Mupita earned almost R100 million last year. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, with MTN images) Africa’s largest cellphone company, MTN, paid six executives R320 million in 2025, a 62% year-on-year gain across its top posts after it reversed its loss-making position in the year to December. In its recently released…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has been awarded conditional shares worth nearly R40-million under the telecommunications group’s long-running performance share plan, the company disclosed on Tuesday. In a notice to shareholders published on the JSE’s stock exchange news service, MTN said Mupita had been allocated 207 633 shares at R192.50 each…
MTN South Africa has launched Pi, a digital-only mobile operator that runs on MTN’s network but operates as a standalone brand, offering contract-free mobile and home 5G connectivity through a single app, with no call centres, no credit checks and no lock-in. In this episode of the TechCentral Show, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod talks to…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita said the pan-African telecommunications giant would exit Iran if given the opportunity. Speaking at the group’s annual results presentation for the year ended 31 December 2025 on Monday, Mupita painted a picture of a business that has become increasingly difficult to manage, with the group having no executives on the…
MTN has approximately 24.7% shareholding in IHS. The board of IHS Towers has accepted an offer of $8.50 a share in a transaction that would see MTN Group increasing its shareholding to 100%, the mobile operator announced today. The potential transaction is subject to various approvals and the delisting of IHS from the New York…
