MTN has released a trading update for the quarter ended 30 September 2025, revealing a marked decline in revenue for its South African business, both year-on-year and for the year-to-date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MTN South Africa’s Q3 2025 revenue amounted to R12.75 billion, down 2.6% year-on-year from R13.09 billion in Q3 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its revenue for the year-to-date amounts to R37.99 billion, down 3.3% from R39.28 billion at the same time in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“MTN SA delivered a resilient performance in the first nine months, amid ongoing intense competitive pressures in the market,” MTN said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, voice revenue declined by 2.8%, digital revenue declined by 2.7%, and fintech revenue declined by 5.1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is in contrast to the rest of the MTN Group, where fintech revenue increased by 35.7%, or 23.1% in constant-currency terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MTN South Africa’s earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) declined by 4.8%. The decline was 4.6% when excluding losses from the disposal of its towers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, MTN’s South African business saw service revenue increase by 2.0% and data revenue increase by 5.0% during the reporting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Although navigating the short-term impacts in Q3 from lower performance in digital and Xtratime, the result was supported by encouraging performances in the consumer postpaid and enterprise segments,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the same period, MTN South Africa recorded 1.3% growth in wholesale revenue and 12.3% growth in enterprise revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company’s subscriber base in South Africa increased by 2.1% to 40.1 million, which it attributed to enhanced product offerings and a customer experience-focused drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Postpaid customers increased by 7.3% to 4.6 million, supported by a stronger YoY uptake of integrated voice and data plans, device-based offers, and continued growth of the FWA Home customer base,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Prepaid customers decreased slightly by 0.4% to 29.4 million from 29.5 million on the back of higher churn, as competition in the segment continued to intensify.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MTN said its data revenue growth was supported by a 1.7% increase in active data subscribers and driven by stronger data traffic, which grew by 24.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Data revenue contributed 48.8% to total service revenue, up from 47.4% in the prior year,” it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Data consumption continued to rise, with average usage per active postpaid data subscriber rising 13.4% YoY to 24.9GB.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It added that the monthly average usage per active prepaid subscriber grew 27% to 4.1GB, which MTN said reflects expanding demand and deeper engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The table below summarises key figures in MTN South Africa’s trading update for the quarter ended 30 September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MTN South Africa’s revenue declined 2.6% year-on-year, and is down 3.3% for the year-to-date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":590463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41906],"tags":[42,19188],"class_list":["post-618627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-telecoms","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618627"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618650,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618627\/revisions\/618650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}MTN SA results<\/th> Q3 2025<\/th> Q3 2024<\/th> Change<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Revenue<\/strong><\/td> R12.75 billion<\/td> R13.09 billion<\/td> -2.6%<\/strong><\/mark><\/td><\/tr> Revenue year-to-date<\/strong><\/td> R37.99 billion<\/td> R39.28 billion<\/td> -3.3%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Service revenue<\/strong><\/td> R11.06 billion<\/td> R10.91 billion<\/td> 1.4%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Digital revenue<\/strong><\/td> Unstated<\/td> Unstated<\/td> -2.7%<\/strong><\/mark><\/td><\/tr> Fintech revenue<\/strong><\/td> Unstated<\/td> Unstated<\/td> -5.1%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Subscribers<\/strong><\/td> 40.06 million<\/td> 39.23 million<\/td> 2.1%<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n