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MTN secretly locks down 4G broadband customers in South Africa
MTN quietly implemented a new rule on 1 January 2026, locking the SIM cards of fixed wireless customers with older LTE/4G routers to the device.
Afrihost, a major Internet service provider which also resells MTN fixed wireless products, notified its customers of the change on Thursday.