{"id":201072,"date":"2017-03-02T08:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201072"},"modified":"2017-03-02T08:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T06:49:31","slug":"mtn-increases-its-subscriber-numbers-and-data-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/201072-mtn-increases-its-subscriber-numbers-and-data-revenue.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN increases its subscriber numbers and data revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has released its financial results for the\u00a0year ended 31 December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The network stated it has increased group subscriber numbers by 3.3% to\u00a0240.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights for the company included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An increase in revenue of 0.4% to R146.8 billion.<\/li>\n<li>An increase in data revenue of 16.7% to\u00a0R39.5 billion.<\/li>\n<li>An increase in data traffic of 143%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Voice traffic was down by 1.7%, while\u00a0EBITDA decreased by 13.2% to\u00a0R51.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capex increased by 19.6% to R34.9 billion,&#8221; said MTN.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">MTN South Africa<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;As previously reported, MTN South Africa delivered a sub-optimal result in the first six months of 2016, with network, systems, and customer service challenges,&#8221; said MTN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While all these issues were not fully resolved during the second half of 2016, MTN South Africa showed strong improvements in network quality and capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company said is has significantly improved its\u00a0net promoter score &#8211; &#8220;particularly in the fourth quarter where it increased its NPS by 8 percentage points to 81%&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>MTN South Africa\u2019s EBITDA in the second half of the year increased by 31.0% (excluding the MTN Zakhele Futhi share-based payment expense) compared to the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/201012-freeme-1gb-and-huawei-smartphone-for-r299-telkom-deal-of-the-month.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">FreeMe 1GB and Huawei smartphone for R299 \u2013 Telkom Deal of the Month<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has released its financial results for the year ended 31 December 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":146213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1001,42],"class_list":["post-201072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-financial-results","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201076,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201072\/revisions\/201076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}