{"id":551894,"date":"2007-03-29T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T08:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551894-mtn-grows-subscriber-base-by-70.html"},"modified":"2007-03-29T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T08:34:52","slug":"mtn-grows-subscriber-base-by-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551894-mtn-grows-subscriber-base-by-70.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN grows subscriber base by 70%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">MTN\u2019s latest results, released today, show a massive increase of 70% from their 23 million subscribers in December 2005. Their new total subscriber base of 40 million marks the biggest single yearly jump in recent years.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to the company\u2019s latest results they have 12 483 000 South African subscribers, slightly more than their 12 281 000 users in Nigeria. South and East Africa accounts for 15 517 000 MTN subscribers, West and Central Africa for 19 622 000 and the Middle East and North Africa for 4 912 000.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/wiki\/index.php\/MTN\">MTN<\/a>\u2019s group revenue increased by 49% to R 52 Billion resulting in profits of R 14 690 000 for 2006. Basic headline earnings per share rose to 606,5 cents for the period, 69% above the 359,8 cents for the nine months ending 31 December 2005.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=70664\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has grown its subscriber base to 40 million and raised its revenue by 49% to R52 billion according to its latest results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551894"}],"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=551894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}