MTN is SA’s better connection for now, but game changer looms

The latest quarterly survey by telecoms specialist MyBroadband.com delivers some more good news for an embattled MTN whose shareholders are still celebrating the Nigerian Attorney General dropping his $2bn claim against the group. But while the Nigerian challenge is far from over (Inland Revenue and Customs are still on MTN's case), results of the MyBroadband report offer comprehensive proof the group's network is clearly superior to rival Vodacom and far above the service of SA's other three players. But as MyBroadband's head of technology Marius Hollenbach explains in this Rational Radio interview, there's a game-changer coming with the Government's long-awaited release of new spectrum in the second half of the year. – Alec Hogg 

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It's been a rough six months for South Africa's multinational telecoms group MTN, with its share price in the low 80s down 27% since August – and off a staggering two thirds since the peaks of five years ago.

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