Cost cuts lifted Ebitda margin to 38.1% in the third quarter, but service revenue was flat and the prepaid base fell to 27.4 million.
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Airtel’s Vittal, MTN’s Mupita and Vodafone’s Della Valle will lead the GSMA until December 2028.
MTN alone has been pushing 90 million Sim cards a year, and says the base is riddled with bad registrations.
Group CEO Ralph Mupita wants an open system that routes tasks to the best frontier or open-weight AI models.
MTN Group faces a R3.9-billion write-down, cash it cannot move and a stake it cannot sell, just as Washington escalates.
MTN’s network spending in South Africa fell 17.1% while Nigeria received nearly three times as much in capital investments.
MTN South Africa cut airtime credit from 42% of prepaid recharges to about 34% over the past year.
MTN South Africa lost 1.1 million prepaid users between March and June as it purged credit-dependent customers.
Gwynne Shotwell says the company will build ground infrastructure and chase customers from established carriers.
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita will join Paul Kagame, Marc Benioff and Jensen Huang on the global AI commission.









