Browsing: MTN South Africa

MTN’s video-on-demand strategy in the South African market has not worked as expected and will now be radically overhauled. That’s the word from MTN South Africa CEO Mteto Nyati, who was speaking

MTN’s South African subsidiary increased its profit margin, calculated using earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, by 1,3 percentage points to 33,4%, suggesting a solid turnaround in the operation, which has underperformed in recent years

Despite the hellish time it had in Nigeria in the final quarter of its 2015 financial year – facing a fine of US$3,9bn from regulators there – telecommunications group MTN has announced it is hiking its final dividend to R8,30/share, up by 3,8% on 2014’s payout.