Icasa’s fingerprint Sim plan runs into major telco resistance

by nouman | Oct 30, 2026 | Association of Comms and Technology, Cell C, Icasa, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, MTN, News, Nomvuyiso Batyi, Rain, Sections, Telecoms, Telkom, Vodacom

South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.

Icasa wants your fingerprint before you can get a Sim card

by nouman | Oct 29, 2026 | Association of Comms and Technology, Ferdi Moolman, home affairs, Icasa, Information Regulator, Mothibi Ramusi, MTN, News, Sections, Telecoms

Icasa wants mobile operators to check their subscribers’ fingerprints or faces against home affairs records.

MTN loses bid to halt US Anti-Terrorism Act claims

by nouman | Sep 29, 2026 | Irancell, MTN, News, Sections, Telecoms

A US court has refused MTN’s bid to appeal, sending two Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuits into discovery.

Starlink wants to be your next mobile operator

by quikefix quikefix.com | Aug 5, 2026 | AST SpaceMobile, AT&T, EchoStar, Elon Musk, Gwynne Shotwell, Icasa, MTN, News, Ralph Mupita, Sections, Solly Malatsi, SpaceX, Starlink, T-Mobile, Telecoms, Verizon, Vodacom, Vodafone

Gwynne Shotwell says the company will build ground infrastructure and chase customers from established carriers.

MTN Nigeria’s growth engine stalled in second quarter

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 31, 2026 | Investment, Karl Toriola, MTN, MTN Nigeria, News, Sections

Second-quarter service revenue grew just 13.2% as tariff base effects washed out and airtime lending collapsed.

The retailer that is about to become your bank

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 30, 2026 | Banking, Capitec, Discovery Bank, Flash, FNB, FoneYam, GoTyme, HSBC, Kokkie Kooyman, Marks & Spencer, Merwe Scholtz, MTN, News, Pambos Soteriades, Pepkor, PlusB, Sections, Standard Bank, Walmart

Why Pepkor’s PlusB is the most credible challenge Capitec has ever faced, and what it will take to prove it.