MTN Group

MTN Group

https://www.mtn.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtn/

MTN Group Limited is a publicly owned South African multinational mobile telecommunications company founded in 1994. Its headquarters are located in South Africa, and it operates mobile network services across numerous countries in Africa and Asia.

2024 Revenue

Founded

1994

Headcount

14,461

Headquarters

South Africa

Primary Segment

Media and TV services

Ownership

Publicly Owned

News Summary:

MTN Group held its first Fintech Summit in Johannesburg on an unspecified date in 2025. The summit, attended by over 350 delegates, aimed to transform Africa's digital financial landscape through a digital-first strategy focused on wealth creation for its 283 million active users. Separately, MTN Group engages in advanced negotiations with American and European companies to build AI-powered data centers across Africa. On September 1, 2025, Bayobab, a strategic MTN Group company, appointed Niraj Shah as General Manager of its Data Centres Programme. Shah will report to Mazen Mroue, CEO of MTN Digital Infrastructure.

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MTN Group offers 3 products in the connectivity and cloud, media and telecoms services and telecoms tech industries. MTN Group's product portfolio comprises of enterprise connectivity services, telecoms network infrastructure and media and TV services.

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MTN Group's revenues were $10.3B in 2024. Caretta Research has split MTN Group's revenue into 3 different product categories, the largest of which is social and online content creator, which represents 50% of MTN Group's revenue.

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Dec

14th

2025

09:31

Capital Investment, B2B Tag

MTN Urges Regulatory And Investment Changes To Unlock Africa’s Creative Industry Potential

MTN Nigeria has called for far-reaching policy reforms and increased investment to accelerate the growth of Africa’s creative economy, describing the sector as a major driver of jobs, innovation, and inclusive economic development across the continent.

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Dec

14th

2025

02:19

Capital Investment, B2B Tag

Telecom sector posts 5.78% real growth in Q3 2025

Nigeria’s telecommunications sector demonstrated remarkable resilience in the third quarter of 2025, posting a real growth rate of 5.78 percent despite a modest quarterly dip, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Dec

13th

2025

20:24

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Now Is Not The Right Time For AI In African Fintech

Every few years, there’s a new technology we’re supposed to implement to “leapfrog” development in African fintech. Mobile money. Blockchain. Now AI. But here’s the pattern I keep seeing: we layer new technology on top of old problems.

Dec

13th

2025

17:33

Entebbe Clubhouse reopens after multi

Entebbe Club House has been reopened to the golfing fraternity following a multimillion-shilling renovation of the country’s oldest clubhouse, built in 1913. The year-long renovation, co-sponsored by MTN and Uganda Breweries under the Johnnie Walker brand, focused mainly on the roofing of the entire structure and facelifted the bar and the main club lounge.

Dec

13th

2025

10:51

MoMo PSB Brings Good Cheer to UNILAG with N10 Bus Rides

MoMo PSB, fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, has announced a partnership with Ogata Electric Vehicles to provide subsidised bus rides of ₦10 per fare to students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). MoMo PSB provides millions of Nigerians with simple and secure financial services including local and international transfers, savings, card services, bills payment, and secure wallet solutions.

Dec

13th

2025

10:49

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Musk gets South Africa to blink in Starlink expansion into the country

South Africa’s Communications Minister Solly Malatsi has issued a policy that requires the country’s telecom regulator to accept equity equivalent investment programs as alternatives to the 30% Black ownership requirement. Malatsi’s policy received over 19,000 public submissions and approximately 90% of those were in support of the approach which disproves the idea that the policy especially favors Elon Musk and his company.

Dec

13th

2025

08:53

Powered Smart Mobility: Ugandan Electric Bus Arrives in Cape Town After a Record

Uganda is celebrating a landmark achievement following the successful completion of the first leg of the Made-in-Uganda Pearl to Cape Electric Expedition 2025, a bold scientific and technological odyssey that has captured continental attention.

Dec

13th

2025

05:15

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

South Africa eases stance as Musk pushes Starlink rollout

South Africa’s Communications Minister Solly Malatsi has issued a policy that requires the country’s telecom regulator to accept equity equivalent investment programs as alternatives to the 30% Black ownership requirement. Malatsi’s policy received over 19,000 public submissions and approximately 90% of those were in support of the approach which disproves the idea that the policy especially favors Elon Musk and his company.

Dec

13th

2025

01:01

ROMANIA 22/29 MTN REGS

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Dec

12th

2025

18:30

PETER BRUCE | Why Trump’s tariffs — and Agoa — matter far less to South Africa than we think

Two important home truths. First, US President Donald Trump’s 30% tariffs on South Africa have not done us much economic harm. I asked Donald MacKay, MD of XA Global Trade Advisors and the smartest trade brain in the country, why.

Dec

12th

2025

18:30

Guinea: The State Acquires 100% of Areeba Guinée S.A.'s Capital

[Translated] Guinea strengthens its strategic control over the telecommunications sector. By decree published on Thursday, December 11, 2025, the President of the Transition, Mamadi Doumbouya, formalized the state's acquisition of the entire capital of Areeba Guinée S.A.The operator was previously owned by the South African group MTN.

Dec

12th

2025

11:19

Big changes to black ownership rules for Internet service providers in South Africa

Communications minister Solly Malatsi has issued a policy direction instructing the ICT sector regulator, Icasa, to address legal problems with its equity ownership rules. In addition to confronting long-standing concerns about requiring all Internet service providers to be minimum 30% black-owned, it would also introduce Equity Equivalent Investment Programmes (EEIPs).

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