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MTN group subscribers rise 3.2%, SA subscribers drop

25th April 2013

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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Telecommunications group MTN has added 6.2-million subscribers to its network during the quarter ended March 31 – a 3.2% quarter-on-quarter rise to 195.3-million across its 22 operations.

The group’s South African subscriber base contracted by 1.9%, from 25.4-million subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2012, to 24.9-million during the first quarter of this year.

“[MTN recorded] solid [group] subscriber growth despite competitive market South Africa [being] impacted by a high level of churn for the period ended March 31,” MTN group president and CEO Sifiso Dabengwa said on Thursday.

While the JSE-listed company’s South African operations experienced a weaker consumer environment and increased pricing competition, Nigeria presented net additions of 3.9-million – jumping 8.1% to 51.3-million during the quarter.

“We regained market share in [Nigeria] by 2 percentage points to 49.7%,” he noted.

Subscriber growth within MTN’s Large OpCo cluster remained steady at an average of 2.4%, reaching close to 90-million during the first quarter.

The company’s Iran, Ghana and Cameroon operations added one-million, 290 000 and 192 000 subscribers, reaching 41.5-million, 12-million and 7.49-million subscribers respectively.

MTN Côte d’Ivoire increased its subscriber number by 5.8%, reaching 354 000 during the first quarter, while Uganda and Sudan reported 3.2% and 4.1% quarter-on-quarter growth to 7.95-million and 8.2-million respectively.

Syria, however, recorded a 6% contraction, from six-million subscribers in the fourth quarter, to 5.6-million in the three months to March, owing to a “highly challenging environment” with no improvement in a volatile “security situation”.

The group’s Small OpCo cluster, which included Afghanistan, Yemen, Benin, Congo, Zambia, Rwanda, Cyprus, Liberia, Guinea, Botswana and Swaziland, recorded a 2.3% rise in subscribers, reaching 29.2-million during the March quarter.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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