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6 unusual facts about MTN Group


Afrinolly

In May 2012, Afrinolly signed a partnership deal with leading African telecommunications provider MTN Nigeria to help drive app consciousness among Nigerians and promote the Nollywood industry on mobile devices.

The competition aimed at showcasing African talent online, and providing a platform to foster the creation of new online content produced by Africans was supported by MTN Nigeria, Blackberry, iRep, and Goethe-Institut.

Anatella

Anatella is currently mainly used by telecom companies (MTN Group, Millicom, VOO, etc.) to create large datasets for predictive analytics (e.g. 85,000,000 rows/customer datasets with 2500 columns starting from 35TB raw text files).

Bowman Gilfillan

In 2009, the firm advised Bharti Airtel, India's largest cellular services provider in their proposed acquisition of the MTN Group, the largest announced but uncompleted merger in South Africa's history with a value of $23 billion.

David Plouffe

In December 2010, Plouffe received $100,000 for two speeches in Nigeria from an affiliate of the South African telecommunications company MTN Group.

Exxset

Since launch, products and services from brands such as Amazon, British Airways, MTN, Globacom, Guaranty Trust Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Vodafone Ghana have been rated as either Fantastic or Frustrating.


Childline South Africa

Calls to the Crisis Line are free from South African telephone networks Telkom, Vodacom and CellC, with the exception of MTN.

Davido

On April 6, 2012, Nigerian Entertainment Today reported that MTN Nigeria signed Davido to a N30 million deal, unveiling him as the face of MTN Pulse, a marketing campaign for Nigerian youths.


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