Ghana is a highly strategic region in terms of MTN’s West African ambitions and it is unlikely that the market will witness a saga like the one that played out in Nigeria over the past few years. MTN Group and its Ghanaian operation released a statement this week in which it refuted a claim by...
MTN Group has encountered significant turbulence in one of its more important markets, Ghana, with tax authorities there claiming they are owed billions in unpaid taxes. The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has slapped MTN Ghana with a notice of assessment of tax liability along with a 21-day temporary withdrawal “to allow for further engagement”. The rand...
MTN Uganda has announced a five-year strategic partnership with Huawei of China to carry out a 5G-capable core network modernisation project. In a press release, MTN said the deal would give it ‘a future-oriented network with greater service agility, innovation for both consumer and industrial verticals, differentiation, improved operation efficiency and better customer experiences with higher data speeds...
MTN’s Mobile Money (MoMo) financial services platform has added a personal loan offering and announced partnerships with SA-born Fintech start-up Zapper and with services aggregator QuickBus. MTN said MoMo Personal Loans, in partnership with credit provider Lndr (PTY) LTD, “offers a seamless application and loan approval process.” The company explained that a portion of the...
Four major mobile networks are battling it out for their place in the South African market — Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and Cell C. According to their latest available results, these four networks had over 112 million active SIMs in the country. Two operators — Vodacom and MTN — have been around for almost three decades...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms effectively predict any degradation in throughput while offering automated corrective action. The solution delivers higher throughputs, which translates into a better customer experience for our subscribers. MTN Benin and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have partnered to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solution in Africa to address throughput...
This is the second major global agreement that Telecoming has signed with a telco group TELECOMING, an international company specialising in sports and entertainment monetisation technologies, has reached a strategic agreement with MTN Group to monetise its sports offer in 21 countries. The impact of the deal opens up a potential market of more than...
MTN Cameroon and state-owned CamTel (Blue) have announced the commercial launch of national roaming in Nkoteng, after a strategic agreement was signed between the two telecoms operators earlier this year. The move will allow CamTel to expand 2G, 3G and 4G coverage in areas of the country that are not already covered by its network. In...
Telecoming, an international company specializing in sport and entertainment monetization technologies, has reached a strategic agreement with MTN Group to monetize its sports offer in 21 countries. The impact of the deal opens up a potential market of more than 280 million African users. This is the second major global agreement that Telecoming has signed...
MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with the 2Africa consortium, which includes China Mobile International, Meta, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, center3, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, have announced the landing of the 45 000km 2Africa cable in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, South Africa. For MTN GlobalConnect, this landing is the first in a series of...
