MTN plans global brand campaign to refocus new strategic direction

The campaign articulates MTN’s belief that emerging markets are on the cusp of a brand new world. This is a world where the distinction between the first and third world no longer exists, thanks to digitisation, the mobile phone company says.

  By Technology Times Staff Reporter Lagos. December 14, 2012: South Africa’s MTN Group says it is launching its latest multi-channel global brand campaign, which pronounces the mobile operator’s and owners of MTN Nigeria bold views on the potential of emerging markets. Titled, “Welcome to the New World”, the campaign launches tomorrow in selected countries [...]

Delivery of enhanced customer experience to our 43m users remains key to our Nigeria growth, MTN says

Omatsola Barrow, Executive for Sales and Distribution, MTN Nigeria says that the innovative distribution model of the phone company has been integral to its success in the country.                                        Photo credit: Mobile World Magazine

  By Technology Times Staff Reporter Lagos. November 26, 2012:MTN Nigeria, the country’s number one mobile phone company by subscriber numbers says its success has largely hinged on a strong focus on customer experience in the continent’s vibrant telecoms market where it has over 43 million active subscribers. It comes just as South Africa’s MTN [...]

MTN Nigeria to launch Windows 8 Phone and devices in December

MTN says that under an alliance with Microsoft, Nigeria will be one of its three markets where it will be a key operator in Africa to deliver Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices to its customers this quarter.

  By Technology Times Reporter Lagos. October 27, 2012: MTN Group, the South African mobile phone giant and owners of MTN Nigeria says that it will unveil Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices to its subscribers in Nigeria in December this year. MTN says that under an alliance with Microsoft, Nigeria will be one [...]

IHS seals $284m deal to acquire mobile phone towers of MTN

Sifiso Dabengwa, Group President and CEO of MTN Group says that, “the benefits to MTN of monetising our non-core assets and outsourcing passive infrastructure to experienced independent companies such as IHS are considerable.”

  By Cudjoe Kpor Lagos. October 14, 2012:MTN Group Limited is closing a deal under which more than 1700 of its mobile network towers will be sold in a $284 million transaction to leading African telecoms infrastructure provider headquartered in Nigeria, IHS Holding Limited. Under the plan, South Africa’s MTN Group, the continent’s leading mobile [...]

Court drops arrest order on Nigerian CEO of MTN Ghana

Reprieve at last: Mike Ikpoki, CEO of MTN Ghana

  By Technology Times Lagos. September 29, 2012: Mike Ikpoki, the Nigerian-born CEO of MTN Ghana and two other executives of the mobile phone company have gotten a reprieve over an arrest order issued against them by a Ghanaian court them over a consumer complaint. The court this week rescinded the order against them over [...]

MTN Afrinolly unveiled to fuse Nollywood with mobile sector

MTN Afrinolly which was developed in 2011 is designed for the benefit of Nigerians Africans and lovers of the local (African) entertainment industry worldwide. It enables mobile phone users access the latest information on the African movie entertainment, movie trailers, music videos, comedy, among others, the leading company in the Nigerian mobile telephony space announced.

By Abbas Bolanle Lagos. July 17, 2012. MTN Nigeria has introduced a mobile entertainment application platform tagged MTN Afrinolly in a bid by the mobile phone company to converge the exceptional growth of mobile penetration in Nigeria and the success of the local film industry. MTN Afrinolly which was developed in 2011 is designed for [...]

MTN Group CEO says resolution in “next few days” in sanction impasse as affected operators incur N10m daily penalty

MTN Group President and CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa, says that, "the standards that are set by the regulator must reflect the realities of the environment and it is not unilateral KPIs. It has to be KPIs that are in agreement with the industry because at the end of the day it is the industry that has to do the investments in order to be able to deliver the quality."

  By Shina Badaru Lagos. June 4, 2012. MTN Group President and CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa is hopeful of a resolution within “the next few days” in the face-off between four sanctioned GSM network operators and the telecoms regulator over a N1.17billion service quality fine in Nigeria. Dabengwa told Technology Times in an exclusive Friday in [...]

MTN, 3 GSM networks to pay N1.17b fines over poor service quality

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation's telecoms regulator, has notified the four affected service providers that they must pay their respective fines not later than May 21 this year or risk, in the event of default in meeting the payment deadline, a fresh round of punitive fine pegged at N2.5million per day.   Graphics: Technology Times

  By Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. May 11, 2012. MTN Nigeria and three other GSM networks have been fined a total of N1.17 billion in penalty for providing poor quality telephony service to mobile phone users in Nigeria, in a no-more-business-as usual hammer wielded by the nation’s telecoms regulator. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation’s [...]