MTN Group

MTN Uganda has quietly launched a fiber-to-home internet service dubbed as the Wakanet Pro(MTN Home Fiber) delivered using optic fiber directly to people's homes. Unlike all MTN products which have big budgets for marketing and customer educations, this service has been flying under the radar... Read More

The start of the new decade saw the world grinding to a halt. When the pandemic swept through and took hold of world economies in early 2020, it quickly became clear that mobile technology, mobile money in particular, would have an outsized role to play... Read More

Recently, the MTN Foundation Uganda announced the 100 lucky youth who were enrolled for the pioneer cohort of the Youth Empowerment Program. The program that promises to be a mainstay on MTN Uganda’s corporate social responsibility agenda will be offering technology training to youths in... Read More

As previously reported, MTN Uganda has been in talks with the Government to sell a stake to NSSF. As of today, the MTN Group CEO Rob Shutter has confirmed that MTN Uganda is ready to give 20% of its stake to Ugandans. This will bring... Read More

CNN International and Africa’s leading mobile operator, MTN, yesterday launched a dedicated ‘Africa View’ news app at an event held at Kampala Serena hotel. The app launch is part of a multi-platform commercial partnership between CNN and MTN, spanning advertising, sponsorship and digital components. The ‘Africa... Read More

MTN Nigeria, the largest telco in Nigeria with a subscriber base of about 58 million is building (and yet to launch) a gigantic 100GBps data network. It's reported that this network is being built in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, the French global telecommunications equipment giant. In... Read More