MTN Group Limited is a highly successful multinational mobile telecomunications company that was formed 28 years ago in the year 1994 in South Africa, when MTN was formed, it was known as M-Cell up until the year 2002 when the shareholders in the mobile phone group approved the board’s plans to change the operator’s name from M-Cell Ltd to MTN Group Ltd.
The MTN Group Limited has grown over the years and has expanded its services beyond the South African boarders and is now operating in a number of countries in Africa and Asia and this signifies just how big and powerful MTN has become in the world. In December of 2020, MTN recorded a total of 280 million subscribers, making it the 8th largest mobile network operator in the world and this also makes MTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator. Below is a list of the countries where MTN is operational:
Afghanistan Benin
Botswana Cameroon
Eswatini Democratic Republic of Congo
Ghana Guinea
Guinea Bissau Iran
Ivory Coast Liberia
Nigeria Rwanda
South Africa Sudan
South Sudan Syria
Uganda Yemen
Zambia
The vision of this Johannesburg headquartered company (MTN) is to lead the delivery of a bold new digital world by building a best-in-class experience for customers. MTN provides traditional voice, SMS and data offerings as well as Mobile Money products including international remittances, savings, lending, and insurance. MTN’s enterprise services are focused on connectivity, communication, cloud, M2M, and enterprise mobility.
Nowadays, we are living in a world where you just have to own an internet connected device (cell phone, laptop, tablet) because the world we are living in is now internet based, the problem however is that it is not always easy to get your hands on these devices because they can be pricey. MTN has some of the best contracts which enable you to get your hands on a pre-paid phone and then pay a single monthly fee for a fixed period of time.