Irans second mobile operator MTN Irancell has launched a first commercial 5G internet service in the country in a location in the capital Tehran. The operator said on its website on Tuesdaythat the service had come on line earlier in the day in a ceremony attended by Irans telecoms minister Mohammad Javad Azari. It said the site located in a ...

Bloomberg - MTN Group Ltd. is considering selling its stake in Irans ride-hailing app Snapp as it trims its e-commerce portfolio and plans an exit of the Middle East. While Snapp retains top spot in Irans ride-hailing market, MTN has identified it as a non-core part of its business, Ralph Mupita, chief financial officer of Africas largest wireless ...

Financial Tribune - South Africas MTN, which has been prevented by US sanctions from repatriating profits from its Irancell partnership, is reinvesting its profits in Iran, the MTN-Irancell CEO said. Bijan Abbasi Arand was speaking on Monday during an event held in Tehran on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the firms launch of mobile services ...

A limitless cyberspace, zero boundaries and eroding national borders is just the beginning of cyber threats, according to a cyber-security expert in Iran. Due to the unrelenting expansion of Iran's Internet usage and the dramatic rise in the number of web users, both mobile and ADSL-based, officials have kept a keen eye on cyber-security in the ...

South African mobile phone operator MTN Group has said easing of sanctions against Iran would allow it to transfer about $1 billion in accumulated dividends and a loan repayment from its Iranian unit. MTN, which owns 49 per cent of unlisted Irancell, the Middle Eastern country's second-biggest mobile phone operator by subscribers, has been restricted ...

MTN has $450m held in Iran by sanctions Better US-Iranian relations would be very welcome for MTN Group because it had not been able to repatriate about $450 million (R4.4 billion) from a unit in Iran, Nik Kershaw, a spokesman for the cellphone operator, said yesterday. MTNs funds had been blocked since early last year because of Washingtons sanctions ...

There is no shortage of controversy when it comes to MTN's Iranian operation, IranCell. The year-long internal investigation led by UK judge Lord Leonard Hoffmann dismissed allegations brought by rival Turkcell that MTN had got its Iranian licence through corrupt means. Turkcell has since dropped its US$4,2bn law suit but the sudden departure of MTN ...

MTNs former finance chief, Nazir Patels,sudden resignationthis week was the end result of him allegedly diverting money out of the operators Iran business, flouting the companys procedures. This is according to a Sunday Times report, which says the investigation around Patel, the reason given on Monday for his resignation, revolved around how he allegedly ...

Irancell has apologized to Sunni Muslims for a mobile phone competition seen as insulting to Muslim caliph and the Prophet Mohammads companion Umar bin al-Khattab. The second largest mobile operator in Iran had sent its subscribers a quiz question deemed offensive to Sunni Muslims,Iran Daily Briefwebsite reported Monday. The telecom operator asked ...