MTN Group

MTN Group

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

MTN Group, publicly owned and headquartered in South Africa, was founded in 1994, with approximately 41,860 employees. The company reported $12.7B in revenue as of 2025. Specializing in search, social, and retail media, the company functions as a multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating across numerous African and Asian countries.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1994

Headcount

41,916

Headquarters

South Africa

Primary Segment

Search, social, and retail media

Ownership

Publicly Owned

News Summary:

On October 9, 2026, MTN Nigeria subscribers in states including Oyo, Lagos, Rivers, Delta, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) experienced a network outage lasting over five hours, leading to customer complaints about disrupted communications, failed transactions, and business losses, with some demanding compensation. Earlier the same day, MTN Nigeria confirmed this service disruption on its official X account, affecting these regions. This followed MTN's communication to customers on October 8, acknowledging "network challenges" in the affected areas. Under Nigerian regulations, compensation becomes due if a network outage extends beyond 24 hours. Separately, on October 9, MTN Uganda concluded a three-week MTN Internet Bus programme by training 407 learners, primarily young people and women from Pader and Lamwo districts, in digital and financial literacy.

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MTN Group offers 4 products in the telecoms tech, connectivity and cloud and media and telecoms services industries. MTN Group's product portfolio comprises of telecoms, telecoms network infrastructure, enterprise connectivity services and search, social, and retail media.

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MTN Group's revenues were $12.7B in 2025. Caretta Research has split MTN Group's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is social media advertising, which represents 100% of MTN Group's revenue.

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Oct

15th

2026

02:12

Regulatory and Legal, B2B Tag, Regulatory Compliance

MTN of empty promises? Less than half of target schools and clinics are actually online

Parliament has sounded the alarm over a major failure to meet South Africa’s digital connectivity targets, revealing that mobile network operators have connected less than half of the schools, clinics, libraries, and other public institutions they were required to bring online under spectrum licence obligations awarded in 2022.

The Citizen News

Oct

15th

2026

00:44

Awards and Recognitions, B2B Tag, Award Wins

Forbes Ranks MTN World’s Third-Best Telecoms Employer

MTN Group has been ranked the third best telecommunications employer in the world on the Forbes World’s Best Employers 2026 list, holding the position for a second consecutive year and marking its sixth straight appearance on the list.

Independent Nigeria

Oct

14th

2026

21:36

B2B Tag, Regulatory Compliance

South Africa flags delays in public institution connectivity

South Africa’s Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies has raised concerns over the slow rollout of internet connectivity to public service institutions (PSIs) by mobile network operators By March 2026, operators had connected 10, 851 of the 21, 878 institutions covered by their Universal Access and Service Obligations (UASOs), representing 49.1% compliance.

Communications Africa

Oct

14th

2026

14:06

Awards and Recognitions, B2B Tag, Award Wins

MTN Now 3rd Best Telecom Employer Globally – Forbes

MTN Group has climbed 33 places to 133rd out of 900 companies globally in the Forbes World’s Best Employers 2026 ranking, while retaining its position as the world’s third best telecommunications employer for a second consecutive year.

Economic Confidential

Oct

14th

2026

11:38

Events, B2B Tag, Events and Conferences

MTN Takes Live It 100 Campus Experience to Abia State University

Abia State University students are set for three days of entertainment, digital experiences and prize competitions as MTN’s Live It 100 On Campus Tour visits the institution from 14 to 16 October 2026. The ABSU event is the latest stop on the tour, which has already visited Delta State University (DELSU), Ekiti State University (EKSU) and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU).

BrandTimes Nigeria

Oct

14th

2026

10:07

B2B Tag, Regulations and Policies

Vodacom and Telkom beat MTN in government Internet rollout

Network operators Vodacom and Telkom are far ahead of MTN in meeting the Universal Service and Access Obligations imposed on them following the 2022 Spectrum Auction. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) presented an update on licensees’ progress in meeting their obligations in Parliament on Tuesday, 13 October 2026.

Oct

14th

2026

07:19

MTN South Africa Trials 5G-Advanced

MTN South Africa has trialled 5G-Advanced on the Upper 6GHz band with Huawei and says it is the first such trial in Africa, reporting a peak download speed of 10.35Gbps. The claim of a first is MTN’s and has not been independently verified.

Oct

14th

2026

06:31

New Offerings, IoT, B2B Tag, New Offerings

Manage Vodacom, MTN and Telkom business SIM cards on one APN with SIMcontrol

SIMcontrol, a platform that simplifies the management of business SIM cards from multiple African countries and networks, has added Telkom to its managed private APN (access point name) service. This enables businesses to use Vodacom, MTN and Telkom SIMs on the same private network and share the same central data pool.

Oct

14th

2026

03:58

RICHARD CALLAND | Fragmented approach risks Africa’s prosperity from minerals

A new scramble for Africa is under way. Once again the biggest trophies lie underground. I know not who coined the phrase “critical minerals”, but it’s a good one. Far more than gold and diamonds, these minerals — like their increasingly outdated last generation predecessors, hydrocarbons — are critical to the current phase of global industrial evolution.

Business Day South Africa

Oct

14th

2026

02:38

Capital Investment, B2B Tag, Investments

NIGERIA AND THE INVISIBLE RAILS

Nigeria’s ₦3.4 quadrillion economy runs on telecom networks, argues JOHN EMENIKE In 2025, electronic payment transactions in Nigeria reached ₦3.458 quadrillion, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Annual Report, more than triple the ₦1.078 quadrillion recorded just a year earlier.

Oct

14th

2026

01:45

Events, B2B Tag, Events and Conferences

MTN Takes Data on Trial to Abia State University

Questions around mobile data consumption, billing and depletion will come under scrutiny at Abia State University (ABSU) on Thursday, October 15, 2026, as MTN brings its Data on Trial initiative to the university. The ABSU engagement comes as MTN takes the conversation beyond its initial public hearing in Lagos into Nigerian universities, giving students an opportunity to question, examine and better understand how mobile data is consumed and measured.

Nigerian CommunicationWeek

Oct

14th

2026

01:26

MTN South Africa reaches over 10 Gbps in first trial of upper 6 GHz band

MTN South Africa has completed what it reports as Africa's first 5G-Advanced upper 6 GHz band trial, recording peak download speeds of 10.35 Gbps. Executed at MTN's head office in Randburg with Huawei under a temporary radio spectrum licence granted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, the trial highlights the operator's push toward deployment of next-generation wireless infrastructure.

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