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MTN Group will exit its operations in the Middle East to become an Africa-only-focused telecommunications operator, CEO Rob Shuter announced on Thursday.
MTN South Africa is feeling the impact of the lost revenue from former roaming partner Telkom, with the company’s service revenue declining by 2.5% year on year despite a strong operational performance.
MTN Group is planning to sell part or all of its R4.2-billion interest in Jumia Technologies as it looks to pay down debt and enter new markets, according to people familiar with the matter.
MTN Group is opening an application programming interface marketplace for software developers. Called Chenosis, it’s meant to allow developers and businesses to discover and subscribe to open APIs.
Telkom Financial Services managing executive Sibusiso Ngwenya joins the TechCentral podcast to unpack the news at the weekend that the company is launching a range of financial services products.
Telkom has branched into the competitive space of financial services by launching a life insurance business that it said will initially sell funeral insurance.
Rob Shuter, the outgoing president and CEO of MTN Group, will join BT Group as CEO of the British company’s Enterprise unit and will become a member of BT’s executive committee.
MTN Group shares fell on the JSE on Friday after Africa’s largest telecommunications operator by subscribers said it was scrapping an interim dividend payment to shareholders.
MTN Nigeria’s profit margin, measured using Ebitda, fell by two percentage points to 51.3% in the six months to June 2020, partly due to accounting changes and Covid-19.