MTN hits 200 million subscriber mark

August 20, 2013 | Filed under: Technology | Posted by: Editor

MTN Group, weekend marked its 200 million subscriber milestone by announcing a bold R200 million initiative to improve the quality of education across its markets in Africa and the Middle East over the next two years.
News of MTN reaching the 200 million subscriber mark comes a year before it celebrates 20 years of connecting people and economies, from South Africa – the launch pad -to South Sudan, its most recent market. As a multinational telecommunications company operating in emerging markets, said MTN Group President and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa, MTN has a particular opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to social development. “Due to the lack of access to quality education and infrastructure, and low literacy rates in most of these countries, MTN has chosen to direct a significant amount of its corporate social (CSI) spend towards education over the next two year.
This will provide people with the skills, knowledge and confidence they
need to make positive decisions about their lives,” Dabengwa said.
In Nigeria, the telecoms company has unveiled an enhanced version of its Virtual Top Up (VTU) service known as MTN VTU Plus. MTN VTU Plus, which is an improvement on its predecessor, VTU, has been enhanced to enable customers buy airtime, purchase MTN data services, logical PINs and renew Blackberry subscription directly from any VTU terminal or vendor nationwide.
Speaking during a press prelaunch of the enhanced service, MTN’s Sales and Distribution Executive, Omatsola Barrow, said that MTN VTU Plus is a unique innovation that allows MTN’s trade partners and vendors to sell up to 48 different MTN products and services to their customers.

By: Ben Uzor Jr & Godferry Justice Okamgba